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McGrath, Robert E. – Journal of Education, 2022
This article summarizes issues in defining character education (CE) that are relevant to program development and evaluation. No authoritative definition exists for CE, but several features seem prominent. These include a focus on enhancing civic, moral, self-regulatory, and/or intellectual virtues; and (at least implicitly) prioritizing the…
Descriptors: Values Education, Citizenship Education, Moral Values, Program Content
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Denisa Labischová; Tomáš Hubálek – Journal of Social Science Education, 2025
Purpose: Taking the form of a report, the presented text aims to map the curricular changes in civic education and social science learning in basic and upper secondary schools after 1989. It seeks to identify the key features of undergraduate teacher training at universities, with an emphasis on field-specific didactics, and to provide a brief…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Social Sciences
Laden, Jennifer Doran – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe how one interdisciplinary program that used an authentic learning approach may have developed global competence in students. This study explored how teachers planned and implemented a global competence program and how students perceived their acquisition of global competence. I used an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Global Approach, Teacher Attitudes, Authentic Learning
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LeeAnne Lavender – Childhood Education, 2024
Many educators and leaders in international schools around the globe recognize the value and urgency of global citizenship education (GCE) and the need to empower PreK-12 students to engage in authentic community engagement and active local and global citizenship. To this end, many educators use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Sustainability, Elementary Secondary Education
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Eleni Christodoulou – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Since 2015, UNESCO has developed a variety of programmes for preventing violent extremism through education (PVE-E), under the framework of Global Citizenship Education and Target 4.7 of Agenda 2030. There have been formal board decisions to promote PVE-E, regional and international conferences and three key publications: a Teacher's Guide (2016),…
Descriptors: Prevention, International Organizations, Violence, Antisocial Behavior
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Harada, Akiko – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
Following ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989, councils involving young people have become widespread, both in developed and developing countries. However, these councils are said to reflect the hierarchical nature of parliamentary and representative democracy, leading to tokenistic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizenship Education, Program Development, Foreign Countries