24. Educating Like Democracy Depends On It with Catherine Lhamon

About this episode

Catherine Lhamon discusses the importance of educating individuals to be active participants in democracy.

transcript: tinyurl.com/elnepisode24 “If we're thinking every day as educators that we're equipping people to be democracy defenders, we're equipping people to have the tools to know how to engage in respectful debate with other people, to be fully participant in their communities, then we are educating them towards civic participation in a way that really works.”- Catherine Lhamon In this episode of Equity Leadership Now!, Catherine Lhamon joins host Jabari Mahiri to discuss her role as the ...

People in this episode

Host: Jabari Mahiri

Guest: Catherine Lhamon

Topics covered

• civic participation
• education
• democracy
• respectful debate
• community engagement

Keywords

• democracy
• education
• civic engagement
• debate
• community

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