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Direct linkAnthemis Raptopoulou; Brendan Munhall – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
The concept of democracy is a central component in education policy at all levels, yet its meaning can be interpreted in a number of ways. This paper examines how democracy is conceptualised and utilised as a legitimising force driving education policy reform. More specifically, attention is given to the use of democracy in the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy
Karrie L. Palmer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Public schools, and education in general, were founded on the principles of preparing young people to participate in civic life as active and informed citizens. Yet, civic competency scores are consistently low and demonstrate that students are not prepared for the civic engagement required of them when they leave school. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Citizen Participation, Civics, Citizenship Education
Download full textNeil Houser – Journal of International Social Studies, 2024
The primary purpose of education is preparation for life. But what kind of life, and life for whom? Within the social studies, emphasis has long been placed on preparation for civic life in diverse and democratic societies within an interconnected world. This remains essential. There is an ongoing need for people who are willing and able to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Citizenship Education, Ecological Factors, Quality of Life
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
Harald Borgebund; Kjetil Børhaug – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: Following globalisation, a rich literature on global citizenship education developed (Akkari & Maleq 2020; Goren & Yemini 2017). However, recent developments in international politics prompt us to ask whether global citizenship education gives young people a grasp of the international world. We argue that global citizenship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Global Education, International Relations
Kjersti E. Dahl – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: This study explores debate seeking and conflict avoidance as dimensions of disagreement orientation, and how factors such as citizenship education and individual background may impact how young people engage in situations with conflicting political perspectives. The aim is to study whether how we facilitate citizenship education may…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Factor Analysis, Secondary School Students, Political Attitudes
Alex Corbitt – Voices from the Middle, 2024
Acknowledging that students are civic actors and that teaching and learning is always relevant to civic lives, this article addresses how imaginative spaces can be political and if the ways that educators dream and speculate with youth have civic implications. The author first considers how communities and nations are shaped by sociopolitical…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizenship Education, Imagination
Marcia 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
Jara Ibarra, Camila; Sánchez Bachmann, Macarena; Cox, Cristián; Miranda, Daniel – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
Based on evidence from a 2019 survey of a sample of Chilean secondary education teachers responsible for citizenship education, this article examines their beliefs regarding citizenship and how these beliefs relate to their justifications of both legal and illegal protest actions in a societal context of wide socio-political crisis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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
Hoggan, Chad; Hoggan-Kloubert, Tetyana – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
This article presents a framework for ethics for radical and transformative education. Taking as a starting point ethical perspectives by which educators of adults are justified in imposing upon, coercing, and manipulating adult learners in the name of social justice, this article highlights the necessary connection between pedagogies and learning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Ethics, Educational Change, Adult Educators
Pillay, Thashika; Karsgaard, Carrie – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2023
Youth from every continent used online tools to exchange ideas, debate alternatives, and create a document that represents their voice on the relationship education should have with global citizenship: the International Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship. This paper applies de Sousa Santos' sociology of absences and emergences to trace the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Decolonization, Neoliberalism
Charlie Thompson – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Civics education continues to gain national importance, especially in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and with recent debates about the teaching of history that addresses the legacy of racism and discrimination in the United States. Despite the increasing interest in strengthening civics education, states continue to differ in…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Civics, Citizenship Education, State Policy
Esther M A Geurts; Rianne P Reijs; Hélène H M Leenders; Emmy M C Simons; Maria W J Jansen; Christian J P A Hoebe – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2023
Although the curriculum ideally serves the interests of its recipients, student perspectives have been marginalised in curriculum negotiation. Our objective is to better meet the needs and wishes of vocational education students by including them in planning, acting/observing and reflecting on the citizenship education curriculum. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Design
Senol Mail Pala – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2023
The social studies course is an effective course regarding raising citizens and is expected to become effective in raising digital citizens. In this direction, teachers' views on the relationship between digital citizenship and social studies course may be important since they are the practitioners of social studies course. For this reason, this…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy
