selected Articles

You can find some of Joel Westheimer's academic work on Academia.edu and ResearchGate. 

You can also purchase one of his books.

Westheimer, J.(2022). Can teacher education save democracy? Teachers College Record. Invited manuscript for special issue: Advancing equity and democracy in teacher education. 124(3)42–60.

Ayers, W., Ayers, R., Westheimer, J. (2021). Curriculum of social movements. In W. H. Schubert & M. F. He (Eds.). Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.

Westheimer, J. (2020). Can Education Transform the World? Kappa Delta Pi Record (56), 6-12.

Westheimer, J. (2019). Plus Ça Change: Democratic goals for civic education in the digital age. Education Canada. December. 23-27.

Westheimer, J. (2019). Civic Education and the Rise of Populist Nationalism. Lead article in Peabody Journal of Education. 94(2). 4-16.

Westheimer, J., Rogers, J. and Kahne, J. (2017). The Politics and Pedagogy of Economic Inequality. Cover article in PS: Political Science and Politics (flagship journal of the American Political Science Association). 50(4).

Rogers, J., & Westheimer, J. (2017). Teaching about economic inequality in a diverse democracy: Politics, ideology, and difference. Cover article in PS: Political Science & Politics, 50(4), 1049–1055. 

Westheimer, J. (2017). Education that matters. Lead article in the Canadian Journal of Education, 40th Anniversary Issue. 40(2), 1-15.

Kahne, J. & Westheimer, J. (2006). The limits of efficacy: Educating citizens for a democratic society. Cover article in PS: Political Science and Politics, 39(2), 289-296.

Westheimer, J. (2004). Introduction: The politics of civic education. Cover article in PS: Political Science and Politics, 37(2), 231-235.

Westheimer, J., & Kahne, J. (2004). What kind of citizen? The politics of educating for democracy. Lead article in the American Educational Research Journal, 41(2), 237–269.

Westheimer, J. (2002). Tenure Denied: Anti-Intellectualism and Anti-Unionism in the Academy. Social Text 73. 20(4), 47-64.

Kahne, J., & Westheimer, J. (1996). In the service of what? The politics of service learning. Cover article in Phi Delta Kappan, 77(9), 592–99.