Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom

About Antero GarciaNicole Mirra

Nicole Mirra is Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. She previously taught high school English Language Arts in Brooklyn New York and Los Angeles California. Her research explores the intersections of critical literacy and civic engagement with youth and teachers across classroom community and digital learning environments. Nicole is the recipient of the Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy (Literacy Research Association 2021); the Divergent Book Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research (Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research 2020); the David H. Russell Research Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English (National Council of Teachers of English 2019) and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018). She is the author of Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom (W. W. Norton 2023); Educating for Empathy: Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement (Teachers College Press 2018); and a co-author (with Antero Garcia and Ernest Morrell) of Doing Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Inquiry with Researchers Educators and Students (Routledge 2015). Antero Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and Vice President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Prior to completing his PhD Antero was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles. His research explores the possibilities of speculative imagination and healing in educational research. Based on his research Antero co-designed the Critical Design and Gaming Schoola public high school in Los Angeles. Antero is the recipient of the Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy (with Nicole Mirra) Literacy Research Association 2021; Early Career Achievement Award Literacy Research Association 2018; Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies AERA 2018; National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 2015. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books about the possibilities of literacies play and civics in transforming schooling in America including Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom (W. W. Notron 2023); Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative (W. W. Norton 2020); and a co-author (with Nicole Mirra and Ernest Morrell) of Doing Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Inquiry with Researchers Educators and Students (Routledge 2015).