Our 2025 AERA SIG business meeting panel discussion theme is: "Democratic Citizenship Education & Political Polarization: Nuances and Perspectives" 

• This panel will grapple with the questions of how we can best pursue democratic citizenship education in a context where public political discourse is highly polarized. Our discussion will interrogate the purposes of dialogue across political differences and strategies for helping students engage in perspective taking, identifying common ground, productive engagement with controversial political topics, and the needs of students whose identities are targeted and threatened as part of polarized discourse. Panelists include Gideon Dishon, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Dane Erickson, More Like Us; Jeremy Stoddard, University of Madison, Wisconsin; Jenni Conrad, Oregon State University

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