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Bursens, P., Ed.; Donche, V., Ed.; Gijbels, D., Ed.; Spooren, P., Ed. – Springer, 2018
This volume brings together both political and educational scientists. While educational research literature has so far not systematically addressed the tool of simulations of decision-making, political scientists have hardly used insights from research on assessment or on motivation and interest of students. Almost all political science…
Descriptors: Simulation, Decision Making, Political Science, Educational Research
Schmidt-Sinns, Dieter – 2000
How the political literacy of an individual may be promoted is a controversial issue. An undeniable fact is that the agencies of socialization structuring political learning have to be understood in their historical context. The didactic discussion in Germany during the second half of the 20th century comprises a whole range of issues which are…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Global Education, Historical Interpretation
Baer, Michael A., Ed.; And Others – 1991
This book contains interviews with 15 major figures in the academic discipline of political science. Contributors discuss the intellectual and institutional roots of political science and trace its evolution and development. Those interviewed describe what it was like to be a part of the earliest Ph.D programs, and what it was like to work with…
Descriptors: Departments, Doctoral Degrees, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Legvold, Robert; And Others – 1988
After three years in power, Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, has emphasized that he intends to carry out a restructuring of the Soviet system in an effort to make the Soviet economy capable of assimilating the opportunities offered by contemporary science, technology and methods of management. Chapter 1, a brief introduction, stresses that…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Communism, Economics
Hargrove, Erwin C.; Hoopes, Roy – 1975
An historical analysis of the use and abuse of power in the Presidency is provided in this supplementary student material. The content includes an analysis of the historical roots of presidential power, popular support, cooperation and conflict with Congress, the international role of the presidency, presidential decision making, the relationship…
Descriptors: Civics, Constitutional History, Decision Making, Governance
Manning, Bayless – 1976
This Headline Series, focusing on U.S. foreign policy, is adapted from a series of four lectures by the author delivered at the Claremont University Center in April 1975. Part one discusses the 1973 Mideast oil embargo and the impact of the crisis on future U.S. foreign relations. Especially affected are questions of interdependence, raw…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Policy, Futures (of Society), Governmental Structure
Brown, Richard Harvey, Ed.; Schubert, J. Daniel, Ed. – 2000
This collection of essays is authored by social scientists who are concerned primarily with relationships between academic knowledge and political power, rethinking the traditional view of politics and science as mutually exclusive fields of study. Chapters are organized into three parts: "Introduction"; "The Institutional Politics of Knowledge…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Discourse Analysis, Educational History, Educational Policy
Nie, Norman H.; Junn, Jane; Stehlik-Barry, Kenneth – 1996
This book explores the causal relationships between education and democratic citizenship. This book is divided into 2 parts and features 11 chapters. Chapter 1, the introductory chapter, looks at "Education and Democratic Citizenship in America: Enlightened Political Engagement." Part 1, "Education and Citizenship in the United States, 1990,"…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics