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Direct linkBeth C. Rubin – Teachers College Press, 2025
Youth participatory action research can turn your classroom into a site of meaningful, relevant civic learning, in which young people gain a sense of civic empowerment as they discuss, investigate, analyze, and speak with authority on issues that directly affect them and their communities. Through stories, examples, and the reflections of youth…
Descriptors: Youth, Participatory Research, Action Research, Citizenship Education
Peer reviewedSigal Ozery Roitberg – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
Contemporary literature reveals that many educators, especially those in elementary schools and in conflict-effected societies, are reluctant to engage in the teaching of current public issues, even more so social controversies. However, this qualitative study examined the successful experience and the perspectives of educators from two elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Current Events
Alison Body; Emily Lau; Jack Cunliffe; Lindsey Cameron – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Encouraging children to become 'good citizens' who positively contribute towards society through charitable and philanthropic action as part of their civic participation has become a core focus of policy and practice. Yet the opportunities afforded to children for active civic learning within primary education remain under-researched. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Elementary Education, Civics
Casmana, Asep Rudi; Dewantara, Jagad Aditya; Timoera, Dwi Afrimetty; Kusmawati, Adistyana Pitaloka; Syafrudin, Iqbal – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
In a context in which academics and policymakers across the globe emphasise the importance of educators acting to encourage citizens to possess high social concern for their environment, this article reports and discusses qualitative research that explores perceptions and actions from within Indonesia. The purpose of the research was to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Education, Citizenship Education, Environmental Education
Beth Cross – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Critique of citizenship education has suggested citizenship should be reconceived, not as a status, but as something that people continuously do: citizenship as practice. This article draws on a two-year ethnographic study of citizenship practices in a Scottish primary school examining how citizenship curriculum was distributed across children's…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cooperative Learning, Decision Making, Elementary School Students
Kathryn Wheeler – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
This paper explores how children (aged 7-11) in the UK are educated about sustainability and climate change, through exploring a sample of 155 learning resources from public, private and third sector organisations. Using qualitative content analysis, key codes captured (a) how sustainability was represented; (b) how responsibilities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Children
Maribel Santoyo; César Augusto Rossatto – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This thought piece explored the scholarship that expands and disrupts ideas of citizenship. In U.S. civic education classrooms, citizenship is viewed through the lens of a legal model that does not accurately reflect mixed-status classrooms in U.S.-Mexico border schools. We argue for a cathartic pedagogy that normalizes the discussion of…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools
Download full textMarcia Linn; Korah Wiley; Megan Bang, Contributor; Douglas B. Clark, Contributor; Sarah W. Freedman, Contributor; Libby Gerard, Contributor; Angela Hardy, Contributor; Daniel Morales-Doyle, Contributor; Thomas M. Philip, Contributor; Linda Schmalbeck, Contributor; Sepehr Vakil, Contributor; Michelle Wilkerson, Contributor – National Academy of Education, 2024
Motivation to learn increases when science courses connect curricular topics to challenges facing students' communities. Students care about their communities and the health of the planet. Instruction that connects science ideas and practices to students' lives and communities creates a pathway for civic engagement. Integrating science ideas that…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education
Rosa, Milton; Orey, Daniel Clark; de Sousa Mesquita, Ana Paula Santos – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Citizenship education is historically linked with political developments that have forced governments to think deeper about nationality, power, identity, and the process of decolonization since large sectors of the population are denied and even excluded from the development of their citizenship. Currently, there is a need to provide mechanisms…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Development, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Nicollette Frank; Morgan P. Tate – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2024
In their work with young learners, the authors found that "We Are Water Protectors," written by Carole Lindstrom, of the Anishinabe/ Métis and Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe Indians, and illustrated by Michaela Goade, of Tlingit descent, was a powerful entry point for recognizing the ways in which Indigenous communities continue to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Civics, Elementary Education
Chrystal S. Johnson; Chenchen Lu; Godwin Gyimah; Razak Kwame Dwomoh – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
The proposed paper utilizes teacher and student data from the 2014 U.S. National Assessment for Education Progress 8th grade Civics test (NAEP-Civics8) to explore the relationship between teacher pedagogical practices and other factors (i.e., teacher credentials, teacher professional characteristics, individual traits, and teachers' education…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Grade 8, Civics, Educational Practices
Abraham Bernárdez-Gómez; María José Bolarín Martínez; Eva María González-Barea; María Jesús Rodríguez-Entrena – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2024
The integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in educational centers has become an imperative need to prepare new generations with the necessary competencies to respond to new global challenges. Schools, as educators, have a responsibility to foster education that promotes sustainable development, ensuring that new generations adopt…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education
Hameed, Suraiya; Lingard, Bob; Creagh, Sue – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
This article draws on a qualitative comparative research study of global citizenship education (GCE) in two primary schools, an international school in Singapore and an independent school in Australia. This paper focuses on the implementation of GCE within the two specific school contexts, Singapore and Australia, examining the tensions which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Elementary Schools
Hoek, Lianne; Zijlstra, Bonne J. H.; Munniksma, Anke; Dijkstra, Anne Bert – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: Standardised questionnaires are used to measure the outcomes of citizenship education. These outcomes are often compared across groups to document different outcomes, for example, between boys and girls. A prerequisite for cross-group comparisons is an assessment of measurement invariance. Methodology: This study used data from 6035…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Error of Measurement
Kükürtcü, Sevi Kent; Erkan, Nefise Semra – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
This study aims to investigate the effects of early childhood Children's Rights and Democracy Education on children's democratic behaviors. The study group consisted of a total of 53 children (28 experimental, 25 control) aged between 60-72 months, who were attending two kindergartens affiliated with the Directorate of National Education in…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Democracy, Democratic Values, Child Behavior
