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Direct linkSarah Gillespie; Mirinda M. Morency; Elizabeth Fajemirokun; Gail M. Ferguson – Child Development, 2025
This study used a natural experiment design to examine the impact of ethnic studies courses on students' ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development, multicultural attitudes, and civic engagement during the 2021-2022 school year in Minneapolis, MN (N = 535; 33.5% White, 29.5% Black, 21.1% Latine, 10.7% multi-racial; 44.7% female, 7.1% non-binary).…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Self Concept, Cultural Pluralism, Civics
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
Brian Gibbs – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Primary Objective: This study examines student reaction to a unit of instruction teaching war through a more critical lens focusing on anti-war movements and how student sense of civic agency was impacted. Research Design: A design study that centered student voice on activism and experiences of a unit of instruction of the USA at war. Design…
Descriptors: War, Activism, Social Studies, Student Attitudes
Download full textJansson, Tobias – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: The aim is to qualitatively explore Civics teachers' assessment decisions regarding content, skills, and methods in Swedish upper secondary schools. Methodology: Thematic analyses of assignments and interviews of thirteen Civics teachers in Swedish upper secondary school. Findings: The open Swedish curriculum and Civics syllabus enables…
Descriptors: Civics, Evaluation Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Thinking Skills
Muchammad Eka Mahmud; Umiarso – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Religious moderation at the high school level is an essential part of the curriculum. One of the supporting factors in education is the principal's leadership style. The aim of this research is to explore the strategy and implementation of the principal's leadership in promoting religious moderation. Materials/methods: This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Secondary Education, High Schools
Per-Åke Rosvall; Mattias Nylund – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
This paper discusses how Bernsteinian concepts ('pedagogic rights', 'discursive gaps' and 'pedagogic code') from the field of sociology of education can be used as didactic tools to illuminate how different ways of organising teaching in VET has implications for citizenship preparation. The paper is based on results from a five-year research…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Civics, Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods
Zummo, Lynne M. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2022
Amid a broader sociopolitical milieu of division, disagreement, and uncivil debate, this study investigates instances of disagreement among students in a high school science classroom as they attempt to answer the civic question of "what should we do" about climate change, a long contentious topic in the USA. Using a theoretical…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Civics, High School Students, Science Education
Tobias Jansson; Håkan Löfgren – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Internal and external factors influence teachers' daily assessment decisions. The purposes of teachers' assessments are crucial, as these purposes guide the assessment process. Still, little is known about teachers' assessment purposes. The aim of this study is to identify and describe the different purposes of assessments that Civics teachers…
Descriptors: Civics, Teacher Attitudes, Decision Making, Student Evaluation
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
Efrat Firer; Benzi Slakmon; Baruch B. Schwarz – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The aim of this research is to explore emotional processes occurring during educational dialogues on civic and social issues (EDCSI) by asking what factors arouse emotions in EDCSI, how do these factors interact, how do they affect the participants, and how this effect can be explained from the perspective of group therapy. EDCSI involves a…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Civics, Social Problems, Psychotherapy
Dustin Hornbeck – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Objectives: In this Paper, I examine how high school social studies content standards in the United States address fundamental concepts of American governance, particularly the concept of democracy. Methods: I conducted a qualitative textual analysis of government/civics content standards from all 50 states, Washington DC, and the Advanced…
Descriptors: Democracy, United States Government (Course), American Studies, Civics
Beth C. Rubin – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Over the past several decades, understandings of civic knowledge and engagement have been enlarged in productive ways; the field has been transformed by contributions rooted in and showcasing critical, cultural, transnational, activist, and participatory approaches to the civic. Civic action research fits neatly amid these new…
Descriptors: Civics, Youth, Participatory Research, Action Research
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
McBrady, Sean – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this comparative case study, the purpose was to describe how teacher language works during political lessons in order to understand it in one case and compare it to cases in different contexts. Three Macomb County, Michigan teachers were interviewed about their planning and then observed teaching a civics lesson to high school students. In…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Language Usage, Political Influences, High School Teachers
Helmsing, Mark E. – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2022
In this research, the author shares findings from a study of how national fantasies about the United States are imagined and expressed in the curriculum and pedagogy of a U.S. high school civics course. Focusing on specific classroom moments, the author considers how both the teacher and her students racialize the national fantasies that appear…
Descriptors: Racism, Civics, Secondary School Curriculum, High School Students
