The Politics of Civic Education 

11/03/2025 19 min

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elif Memis can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/the-politics-of-civic-education/. About the post: Educational institutions promote civic education through various simulations, to inform communities about democracy and citizenship. Although such practices indeed increase society’s knowledge in civics, the absence of marginalized communities’ representation ​​prevents societies from achieving an inclusive and representative democracy.

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