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Shirley Kessler; Daniel Castner – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The authors begin this article with an account of the crises in education in the US today. Curriculum theory is applied to the ideas in the 4th edition of NAEYC's 'developmentally appropriate practices,' and the relationship between the ideas in this edition to current issues is discussed. The authors also present a brief description of democratic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Democracy
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Eddie Playfair – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
This article considers how to approach the task of developing a curriculum for social justice at a time of planetary and systemic crisis, on the basis that both 'human capital development' and passing on 'the best that has been thought and said' from the past are inadequate responses. If our aim is to create the conditions for human survival and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Social Justice, Values, World Views
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Bohdan Szklarski – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Civics courses have a great significance -- they are supposed to train new cohorts of citizens to engage in multiple public roles in (democratic) society. How it is done depends on a multitude of factors, and teachers' performance and program contents are among the most important. In post-authoritarian order like Poland, civic contents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Democratic Values
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van Deventer, Anriët; Steyn, Raïta – Design and Technology Education, 2022
This article refers to the South African Design teachers' attitudes towards the implementation of the 2020 Section 4 amendments of the Design Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). The purpose of the article is twofold: first to establish the necessity for "awareness" of the teachers' attitudes towards curriculum changes,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Day, Katie – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2022
This article is a reflection on the teaching of public theology in two very different contexts: in a Protestant seminary in the US (1985-2019) and an underground seminary in Nazi Germany (1935-1937). The author analyzes her teaching career over years of change, both institutional and social, that challenged pedagogical methods to remain relevant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Protestants
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Wagner, Paul A. – Education and Society, 2022
State educational standards prescribing curricular and instructional objectives reveal much about the nation's lack of consensual understanding of patriotism. For example, many state standards finally encourage a non-committal arms-length approach to the study of American ideals in government and tradition. Yet, if students are to understand the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Patriotism, State Policy, Teaching Methods
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Paulina Haduong; Julia Jeffries; Allison Pao; Willie Webb; Danielle Allen; David Kidd – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
There is increasing urgency to broaden access to inclusive and culturally sustaining K-12 civic education. Civic education can foster young people's development of their civic identity, which can support a functioning American democracy. Civic education often includes opportunities for learners to develop civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions,…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Inclusion, Cultural Maintenance
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Martha Ritter – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2018
Students in an eighth grade classroom call out to close all borders to the United States and shoot down illegal immigrants on sight. This paper examines two curricular responses to the violence in the language of this group of fourteen-year-olds in relationship to the cultivation of civility. Civility is often defined as good manners or polite…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Civil Rights, Democracy
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Saito, Naoko – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
This article will highlight the distinctive role of Cavell in renewing a dawn of American philosophy. Following Emerson's remark, 'the inmost in due time becomes the outmost', Cavell develops his distinctive line of antifoundationalist thought. To show how unique and valuable Cavell's endeavor to resuscitate Emerson's and Thoreau's voice in…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Moral Values, Personality Traits, Justice
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Sen, Abdulkerim – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
Relying on a theoretical frame developed in reference to an interdisciplinary research field, this article provides a critical analysis of Turkey's citizenship education (CE) curriculum with a view to revealing discourses that inhibit the promotion of cosmopolitan values of human rights, democratic citizenship and diversity. The analysis…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Political Attitudes
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Perrine, William M. – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2017
In recent years, philosophers of music education have called for a greater degree of political engagement by music education practitioners. Using Marcuse's discussion of "repressive tolerance" as a conceptual framework, I argue that a politicized curriculum in music education works against the liberal ideas of free speech and a free…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Curriculum Development, Critical Theory
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Önal, Gökhan; Baki Pala, Çigdem – European Education, 2022
This article analyses the extent to which history education (HE) in Turkey adheres to the HE principles proposed by the Council of Europe. A compulsory history textbook is analyzed in detail. The analysis finds an understanding of HE that marginalizes minorities due to nationalist and militarist content. The Atatürk's Principles and History of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Global Approach, Nationalism, Foreign Countries
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Bartels, Rob; Onstenk, Jeroen; Veugelers, Wiel – Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
Philosophy for Democracy is a research project which aims to examine whether and how Philosophy with Children contributes to the development of democratic skills and attitudes. Philosophy with Children seeks to develop children's critical thinking, their ability to judge, enhance their dialogical skills and attitudes and to contribute to their…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Children, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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Bessant, Judith; Farthing, Rys; Watts, Rob – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
Contemporary discussion of the "crisis in democracy" displays a tendency to see young people as the problem because they are "apolitical" "apathetic" and "disengaged" or point to deficiencies in institutions deemed responsible for civic education. This discussion normally comes as a prelude to calls for more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Democratic Values, Civics
McCormick, Paul R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of a democratic school leader and understand how his conception of leadership is congruent or incongruent with notions of democracy and democratic leadership. This small, participant-observer case study follows a democratic school leader and his staff for a year and examines those challenges…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Administrator Attitudes, Leadership Responsibility, Democracy
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