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Carah Ong Whaley; Dena Pastor; Abraham Goldberg – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Mandated under Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, the decennial census determines the distribution of power and resources based upon population counts. College students are a hard-to-count population with limited knowledge about why the census matters and how to complete it. Politics and the global health pandemic made the…
Descriptors: Census Figures, College Students, Citizen Participation, Civics
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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
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Roessing, Matt; El-Jourbagy, Jehan – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2018
In a 2016 survey, just 26% of Americans were able to name all three branches of government, and 31% failed to name even one branch. In 2011, the American Bar Association's (ABA) Commission on Civic Education in the Nation's Schools called the progress of civic education "worrisome" and said, "there is reason to be alarmed at the…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), Civics, Citizenship Education, Constitutional Law