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Book Review: Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility

row the focus of the book, the authors’ decision to minimize issues of power nevertheless effectively allows teachers and administrators to continue the perpetuation of current systems of power and privilege within the learning contexts. The intended audience for this book includes new faculty and those who have subject matter expertise but scant understanding of educational theories. Thus, inattention to a broader set of learning theories fails to demonstrate ways in which faculty can change their current teaching methodology. Bates and Poole are aware of the need to expose teachers to other issues and theories related to technology and teaching. “It is better to start to use technology for teaching than to wait until everything that is known about how to teach well with technology has been learned” (p. 22). Even though these are very good intentions, the authors miss important opportunities to help teachers examine their beliefs and the political implications of those decisions. In this way, the authors’sense of urgency enable teachers to continue with current practices rather than use the discussion to help them change to embrace different pedagogical strategies that better focus on the learning needs of the growing, diverse student population. I would, therefore, recommend this book to instructors, instructional designers, administrators, and students within educational settings. The book provides a much-needed connection between learning and technology. Nevertheless, I strongly recommend that educators use supplemental materials, which focus on additional social and critical theories to address the needs of our rapidly growing diverse student population.