Acknowledgments List of Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction: Teaching Controversy: Theoretical Criteria, Practical Challenges and Real-Life Conflict Johannes Drerup, Dorothee Gronostay, and Douglas Yacek Part I: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Chapter 2: From Religion to History: The New Culture Wars in American Schools Jonathan Zimmerman Chapter 3: Is there a Principled Exception to the Epistemic Criterion of Controversiality? Michael Hand Chapter 4: Seeing the Person Behind a View: A Practical Interpretation of What It Means to Teach an Issue "as Controversial" and What is Necessary for Doing So Fruitfully Anders Schinkel Chapter 5: Teacher Neutrality - Liberal, Democratic, Epistemic Johannes Giesinger Chapter 6: On the Improbability of "Teaching the Controversy" in School Michael Merry Chapter 7: Moving Beyond the Philosophical Controversy over Controversial Issues: Decision-making about Teacher Impartiality as a Problem of Professional Ethics Bruce Maxwell Chapter 8: Is the Indoctrination-education Distinction Controversial? Christopher Martin Part II: Empirical Perspectives Chapter 9: Teachers' Beliefs about Democracy and their Role in Democratic Education: A German perspective Peter große Prues Chapter 10: Conflict and controversy in German Denominational Religious Education: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Explorations of an Institutionalised Committed Impartiality Approach Jan-Hendrik Herbst Chapter 11: Reflective Balancing: A Guiding Ideal for Teacher Education? Marcus Kindlinger & Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg Chapter 12: Controversial Conversations on College Campuses: What Happens and Why It Matters for Democracy Rachel Wahl Part III: Classrooms and Conflicts Chapter 13: Emotion and Intellect in the Face of Societal Violence Sarah W. Freedman, Karen Murphy, and Gail Weldon Chapter 14: Teaching Controversial Issues in a Populist and Post-truth Context Sarah M. Stitzlein Chapter 15: Teaching Controversial Issues with Normative Case Studies Tatiana Geron, Alexandra Chang, and Meira Levinson Chapter 16: Trust Amidst Controversy: The Ethics of Classroom Conflict in Discussions of Race Sally Moore & Winston C. Thompson Chapter 17: Sexting or Same-Sex Marriage? Shifting the Center of Controversy in School Sex Education Kirsten M. K. Welch Chapter 18: Social Conflicts and the Normative Discourse: Pedagogical Framework for Political Education Prakash Iyer Chapter 19: Controversial Issues and Trust Building: Symbiosis or Disjuncture? Jane C. Lo & candace moore Index.