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Educating African Immigrant Youth: Schooling and Civic Engagement in K-12 Schools. Language and Literacy Series
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Vaughn W. M. Watson Ed.; Michelle G. Knight-Manuel Ed.; Patriann Smith Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
This book illuminates emerging perspectives and possibilities of the vibrant schooling and civic lives of Black African youth and communities in the United States, Canada, and globally. Chapters present key research on how to develop and enact teaching methodologies and research approaches that support Black African immigrant and refugee students.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Blacks, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
The Role of the Arts in Learning: Cultivating Landscapes of Democracy. Routledge Research in Education
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Hanes, Jay Michael, Ed.; Weisman, Eleanor, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Grounded in philosophy from John Dewey and Maxine Greene, this book sheds light on difficulties and practicalities of examining culture and politics within the realm of interdisciplinary education. Providing both theoretical and concrete examples of the importance of a contemporary arts education, this book offers imaginative ways the arts and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Politics of Education, Democracy, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
The College Curriculum: A Reader. Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society. Volume 62
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DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education
Connecting Civic Education & Language Education. The Contemporary Challenge.
Stotsky, Sandra; And Others – 1991
This collection of essays offers a new approach to strengthening the development of students' civic identity through the teaching of reading, writing, speech, and literature. A foreword by Richard L. Larson and an introduction by Sandra Stotsky are followed by the following essays: (1) The Decline of a Civic Ethic" (Sandra Stotsky); (2) "Reading…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, English Curriculum, Higher Education
Educating Democratic Citizens in Troubled Times: Qualitative Studies of Current Efforts
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Bixby, Janet S., Ed.; Pace, Judith L., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2008
This book offers a groundbreaking examination of citizenship education programs that serve contemporary youth in schools and communities across the United States. These programs include social studies classes and curricula, school governance, and community-based education efforts. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Governance, Community Education