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Direct linkMargit E. McGuire; Alexander S. Butler; Bradley Fiege; Jennifer Murrihy; Rebekah Reed; Kate Van Haren – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2025
In the elementary years, social studies is an essential subject, critical to young learners' academic success and well-being. The success of our democracy depends on equitable access to this vital learning for all students. Social studies must be taught in every classroom starting in PreK so learners can develop into civically knowledgeable,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary Education, Student Centered Learning, Relevance (Education)
Download full textWahyu Sri Ambar Arum; Hana Naurah Khalilah; Arita Marini; Gusti Yarmi; Desy Safitri; Leola Dewiyani – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
This study aims to create a Genially based interactive multimedia product to increase interest in learning civics among fifth-grade students. This research and development type uses the analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate (ADDIE) model. This study used three samples in the one-to-one stage, six in the small group stage, and 26 in the…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Civics, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
Beth 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
Sigal 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
Klas Andersson; Kristoffer Larsson – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: Investigate first- to third-graders' understandings of the police. Design/methodology/approach: Phenomenography is used to analyze elementary students' understandings of the police as a social institution Findings: The results indicate three qualitatively different ways of understanding the police. The police as: attributes, activities…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Comprehension, Police, Civics
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
Elena Comino; Laura Dominici; Anna Reyneri; Anna Treves – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship between academia and society focusing on how technical universities perform Third Mission (TM) to promote knowledge outside the academic environment producing multiple benefits. Design/methodology/approach: This investigation is performed through the conceptual approach. The theoretical…
Descriptors: College Role, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Technical Institutes
Irina Kuznetcova; Shantanu Tilak; Ziye Wen; Michael Glassman; Eric Anderman; Tzu-Jung Lin – Grantee Submission, 2023
Immersive storytelling (IST) is usually conceptualized within the framework of technologically immersive tools such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. While these tools offer some unique features (such as visual fidelity, interactivity, and embodied, first-person perspective), their level of technological immersion (based on the system's…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Story Telling, Civics, Interaction
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
Natalie Sew; Adrianne Billingham Bock; Danielle Allen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Building on the literature of student leadership development, Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen share an approach to civic education: Deeper Civic Learning. This approach offers students the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and key civic dispositions needed to engage in their communities and develop their…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Civics, Curriculum Design, Grade 8
Ho Sum Jon – Cogent Education, 2024
As Philosophy for Children (P4C) is increasingly favored as an educational approach in other regions, the absence of P4C in traditional schools in Hong Kong raises controversy regarding its benefits for Hong Kong students. This paper investigates the potential of implementing P4C in Hong Kong by exploring the features of values education in Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Elementary School Students, Moral Values
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
Joe Kahne; Michelle Ciulla Lipkin; Brendesha Tynes; Sarah McGrew; Nicole Mirra; Antero Garcia – National Academy of Education, 2024
We live in a digital age. Our engagement in civic and political life and our engagement with digital media are deeply intertwined--presenting a vast array of new opportunities and challenges related to civic reasoning and discourse. This transformation, appropriately, has led to calls for an educational response. In particular, reform efforts in…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary Schools
Denisa Labischová; Kristina Kalitová – Open Education Studies, 2024
The article presents the results of a 2022 study involving students training to be civic studies teachers. Three research goals were set: to determine which gender and family stereotypes burden the interpretation of a photograph; to identify qualitative differences in the perception, analysis, and interpretation of the photograph depending on the…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Civics, Preservice Teachers, Photography
