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Schmidt, Jon – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2021
Critical civic engagement is a pedagogical framework that suggests a return of civic education to American schooling is not simply about providing civics for all students, but that civic education, particularly among marginalized urban high school students, must engage lived experiences, develop critical thought, and facilitate informed civic…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Urban Schools
Cheng, Yin Cheong; Yuen, Timothy W. W. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the worldwide discussion of conceptualization, multiple functions and management of national education in an era of globalisation by proposing a new comprehensive framework for research, policy analysis and practical implementation. Design/Methodology/Approach: Based on a review of the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Nationalism, Civics
Roessing, Matt; El-Jourbagy, Jehan – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2018
In a 2016 survey, just 26% of Americans were able to name all three branches of government, and 31% failed to name even one branch. In 2011, the American Bar Association's (ABA) Commission on Civic Education in the Nation's Schools called the progress of civic education "worrisome" and said, "there is reason to be alarmed at the…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), Civics, Citizenship Education, Constitutional Law
Banks, James A., Ed. – American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2017
This groundbreaking book describes theory, research, and practice that can be used in civic education courses and programs to help students from marginalized and minoritized groups in nations around the world attain a sense of structural integration and political efficacy within their nation-states, develop civic participation skills, and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Migration, Civics, Disadvantaged
Sean Arthurs – ProQuest LLC, 2016
America's schools were founded on the principle that a democratic nation needed informed, active, and knowledgeable citizens in order to realize the promise of democracy. Over the last 400 years, we have lost our way. Today's schools do a poor job of preparing our students to be engaged, open-minded, and purposeful participants in a system of…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Best Practices
Reiff, John D. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
This article tells the story of the first state in the U.S. to set the expectation that every undergraduate in public higher education would be involved in civic learning. In 2012, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education made "Preparing Citizens" one of seven key outcomes of its Vision Project for public higher education. In 2014,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Civics, Citizenship Education, State Boards of Education
Peterson, Andrew; Bentley, Brendan – Curriculum Journal, 2017
Preparing students for informed and active citizenship is a core goal of education and schooling in Australia. The ways schools educate and prepare young Australians for citizenship involves a range of processes and initiatives central to the work of schools, including school ethos, mission, extracurricular activities and community-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Civics, Public Schools
Fedorov, Gavriil Mikhailovich – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to construct a model of the development of the agricultural school in accordance with modern educational requirements ensuring the improvement of conditions, processes, and the content of agricultural education. Modern approaches to constructing the model of the organization of educational activities at agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Foreign Countries, Models, Program Development
Leung, Yan Wing; Ng, Hoi Yu – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2014
Internationally there have been serious efforts to identify effective modes of delivering civic education for preparing youth for the future challenges of citizenship. This article addresses the research question, "why is an independent subject not preferred in civic education by Hong Kong civic education teachers?". It starts with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy
Busch, Matthias; Morys, Nancy – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: This article focuses on recent developments in the domain of civic education in the French education system, the new programme on "Enseignement moral et civique" (EMC), and the debate about the relevance of the basic values of the Republic which came up after the terror attacks in January 2015. Method: The study is based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Civics
Nestian Sandu, Oana – SAGE Open, 2015
Our societies are going through a process of continuous transformation. The challenges and opportunities of diversity and globalization can only be addressed if civic education and intercultural education are interrelated. More often than not, there is a lack of coherence between educational practices based on these approaches. Moreover, even if…
Descriptors: Community Development, Attitude Change, Civics, Citizenship Education
Healy, Shawn; Dobson, L. Douglas; Kyser, Janis; Herczog, Michelle M.; Genzer, Debbie – Social Education, 2014
Civic learning for all students seems like a reasonable and important aim for all schools to achieve. If we believe that the future of our American democracy depends on a citizenry that is informed, engaged, and responsible, what better place to create future citizens than in schools? The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools…
Descriptors: State Policy, State Action, Civics, Institutional Mission
Nairne, Jennifer – Center for Civic Education, 2008
Graduates of the six regional 2007 "We the People: Project Citizen" professional development summer institutes were surveyed to determine how useful they found their institute experience, and to the extent to which their participation at the Center-sponsored institutes influenced their teaching of civics and government. The study was…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Institutes (Training Programs), Summer Programs, Civics
McIntosh, Hugh; Berman, Sheldon H.; Youniss, James – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2007
In September 2003, Hudson High School in Hudson, Massachusetts launched two new civic development efforts--clustering and schoolwide governance--and moved into a new building designed to facilitate them. Clustering is designed to achieve a sense of community within a large school by creating small communities of 100 to 150 students. To create…
Descriptors: High School Students, Intervention, Citizenship Education, Focus Groups
Degelman, Charles; Philips, Susan – 1998
"Active Citizenship Today" (ACT) is a service learning program for the social studies. There are two things that make ACT different from other service learning programs: (1) the "learning" in service -- learning refers to traditional social studies content and skills (it is a civics model); and (2) ACT is built around a problem-solving framework.…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics
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