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Erik Lundberg; Ali Abdelzadeh – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Current literature recognizes that various socialization agents often shape political behavior. This study employs frameworks of political socialization and political agency to explore how extracurricular activities and political intentions established at age 16 influence aspects of political participation and civic engagement at age…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Political Attitudes, Political Socialization
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Getahun Yacob Abraham; Mary Alice Barksdale – Cogent Education, 2024
Picturebooks are media resources that combine illustrations and texts to reach young children with entertainment and messages about life. They can support children's development of understanding of democratic principles. For this paper, picturebooks from Sweden and the US with content involving democratic principles were analysed with the goal of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Picture Books
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Johan Samuelsson; Åsa Melin; Christina Olin-Scheller; Niklas Gericke – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Teachers' implementation of and attitudes to school reforms and overriding pedagogical ideals have long been a topic of debate and research. In this article, we centre on teachers' descriptions of how progressive teaching was conducted as well as on the teachers' reasons for implementing such teaching in the 1940s. This study is based on written…
Descriptors: Educational History, Trend Analysis, Progressive Education, Foreign Countries
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Peters, Anne-Kathrin – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
This article concludes a longitudinal study with the broader aim to explore learner development as a long-term, social process. One goal has been to inform the endeavours of improving student engagement, retention, as well as under-representation of certain demographics in computing. Students of two computer science-related study programmes…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation
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Andersson, Erik – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2019
School democracy in terms of formal student participation is often expressed through different types of councils. This requires that these forms of political participation function democratically. The article contributes knowledge about the school as a public space and the democratic experiences gained through formal student participation in class…
Descriptors: Democracy, Student Participation, Student Government, Citizenship Education