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Mulugeta Yayeh Worku – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2025
This study aimed to examine the instructional process of citizenship education in secondary schools in the Amhara state of Ethiopia. To that end, a mixed-method research approach with a concurrent triangulation design was employed. A total of 107 citizenship education teachers and 480 students were selected from 24 secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Robert Laurence McLaughlin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
"Current research in the United States has found only a small percentage of adolescents have developed a sense of purpose. This dissertation investigates how a 2-year 11th and 12th-grade residential multicultural values-based experiential program influences adolescents' sense of purpose. The participants for this research included 2023…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Multicultural Education, High School Students, Grade 11
Trout, Joseph Jude; Murphy, Casey; Vukicevich, Morgan – Physics Teacher, 2019
Active learning techniques are generally considered to be any classroom activities in which students become an active participant in learning, instead of a passive listener to a lecture. Service learning activities are generally experiential (real life) and reflective problem-based learning activities in which students enrolled in an academic…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Service Learning, Physics, Calculus
Baumgartner, Karin; Brown, Connor; Demschar, Isabel; Rellaford, David; Tanner, Keaton; Thomas, Alyssa – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2022
The article discusses a year-long outreach activity, "Sparking interest in German." Five University of Utah German students engaged in the AATG/Goethe-Institut-sponsored SPARK program and taught German to local middle schoolers. At the heart of this outreach project were questions such as whether student-run outreach programs could truly…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, German, Outreach Programs, Student Interests
Morrison, Andrew; Erstad, Ola; Liestøl, Gunnar; Pinfold, Nicholas; Snaddon, Bruce; Hemmersam, Peter; Grant-Broom, Andrea – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
In this article we explore the dynamic between the pedagogical and the urban, attending to 'agentive urban learning'. By this we mean processes by which young people build agency in the urban context, in using the resources of the city to develop their own agency, and of developing agency to act within the city. By agency, we refer to the capacity…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Futures (of Society), Situated Learning, Place Based Education
Salisbury, Katie E.; Rule, Audrey C.; Vander Zanden, Sarah M. – Middle School Journal, 2016
An authentic, challenging curriculum engaged middle school students from an urban district in exploratory work related to restoring a small prairie at the school. Integrated science-literacy-arts activities were coupled with a system of thinking skills that helped students view issues from different perspectives. Impassioned guest speakers and an…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Middle School Students, Urban Schools
Kinloch, Valerie; Nemeth, Emily; Patterson, Ashley – Theory Into Practice, 2015
This article describes a critical service-learning project that resulted from an educational partnership among a national teachers' union, a local teachers' union, and a major research university. The partnership-funded by a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve program--focused on professional development…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs, Urban Youth
Acosta, Daniel – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2014
This article describes a project inspired by Liping Ma's "Exploring New Knowledge" in which future 7-12 grade mathematics teachers enrolled in a fall 2013 capstone course at a typical regional state university were assigned fictitious student conjectures. These future teachers (all current high school mathematics teachers) were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teachers, Student Teaching, Secondary School Teachers
Cempellin, Leda – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2012
This article focuses on the structure, challenges, and outcomes of a service-learning project experimented by an art historian in an innovative special topics course Museum Experience, cross-listed with an Honors art appreciation course. The discussion includes: creating a new course content planned according to a multidisciplinary perspective…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Arts Centers, Museums, Honors Curriculum
Philadelphia Youth Network, 2010
This paper presents the annual report of Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN) for 2009-2010. This annual report documents the journeys of several participants in their programs who have gone on successfully to college and careers, and demonstrates the potential of young Philadelphians to begin to reach their goals. In telling these stories, they build…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Youth, Annual Reports, Youth Opportunities
Kwok-bong, Chan – New Horizons in Education, 2009
Background: In recent years, more and more secondary schools in Hong Kong begin to employ service learning in designing student learning activities. A vast majority of these attempts is developed based on the philanthropic ideas of altruism, love and care; it involves serving elderly people living in the elderly homes far away from the school…
Descriptors: Community Services, Secondary Schools, Altruism, Service Learning
Gonzalez, Esther Luna; Rodriguez, Flor A. Cabrera – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
This paper describes a research project that has its origins in a broader research programme in Citizenship Education that is being undertaken by the intercultural education research group (GREDI) at the University of Barcelona. The programme, "From school to community," is intended to serve as a framework for teaching the process of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Multicultural Education, Service Learning, Secondary Education
Duerr, Lynn – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2007
Many low-income families are at risk for food insecurity. In addition, with the aging of America, multigenerational families are becoming more prevalent, resulting in excessive strain and burden on the resources of low-income families. Family and consumer sciences educators need to teach their students about factors that contribute to food…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Learning Activities, Food, Hunger
Thorpe, Tamara – Ontario Action Researcher, 2007
This research was conducted to explore the impact of participation in an international education program on youth leadership development and how youth can more effectively engage in civic and community issues. The findings and recommendations offer international education programs, educators and youth workers strategies and best practices to…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Service Learning, Youth Leaders, Leadership