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Filipe Piedade; Tiago Neves; Manuel Loff; Isabel Menezes – Educational Review, 2025
Democracies expect citizens to engage actively in public life by making decisions about political issues that are frequently ambiguous, with strong moral and emotional implications, and often subject to misinformation and manipulation. Strong critical thinking (CT) appears therefore as a crucial component of a reflective democratic citizenship.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Citizen Participation, Democracy
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Vaessen, Annabel; Daas, Remmert; Nieuwelink, Hessel – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2022
The views young people have towards democratic values shape their views in later life. However, the values that are fundamental to democracy, such as majority rule and minority rights, are often competing. This study aims to provide insight into the ways adolescents view democratic issues in which democratic values are competing. To do so, three…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Vocational Education, Adolescents, Democratic Values
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Lawrence, Windy Y.; Rountree, John; Mehltretter Drury, Sara A. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Deliberative pedagogy holds promise for improving democratic society by cultivating practical wisdom in students as a means to tackle the problems of democracy, such as polarization. This study embraced an opportunity to consider civic education in the 21st century through deliberative pedagogy by considering practical wisdom in a synchronous,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Teaching Methods, Citizenship Education, Civics
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Håkansson, Michael; Östman, Leif; Van Poeck, Katrien – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
This article presents a categorisation of the different situations in which the political dimension of environmental and sustainability education can be handled and experienced in practice: the "political tendency." Using a methodology inspired by Wittgenstein's user perspective on language, we empirically identified situations that…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Language Usage, Decision Making
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Thomas, Nancy; Brower, Margaret – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
Commitment to democracy and democratic norms is declining to the point where many Americans question the current political system as a form of democratic governance. Americans are deeply divided along lines of social identity, political preferences, and lived experiences (Pew Research Center, 2017a). The rhetoric and divisiveness of the 2016…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, College Environment, College Students, Voting
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Luescher-Mamashela, Thierry M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
This article outlines the main cases for and related objections against student representation in university governance found in the relevant literature, and proposes a way in which variations in student representation within institutions may be understood and justified. It contextualises the modern origins of student representation in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Administration, Governance
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Neumann, Dave – Social Education, 2012
The American public can count on a few things during the presidential election season. First, candidates will take a moral high ground and forswear mudslinging. Before long however, they will proceed to engage in nasty accusations against their opponents. A vibrant democracy ought to welcome carefully thought-out views that, when intentionally…
Descriptors: Slavery, United States History, Democracy, Democratic Values
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Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra T.; Petrzelka, Peggy – Rural Sociology, 2008
A number of dimensions of the democratic political process are important for understanding civic communities and civic engagement. While many of these aspects have been examined at the federal level, less is known about how these dynamics operate at the local level, especially in rural communities, and that, moreover, involve a specific issue. In…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Democracy, Public Officials, Rural Areas
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Pateman, Carole – Administration and Society, 1975
The theoretical changes required to encompass organizational democracy cannot be contained within liberal democratic theory itself. Thus, the logic of some of the central arguments of the theory leads to its transformation into a theory of participatory or self-managing democracy. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, Decision Making, Democracy, Democratic Values
Twohig, Dorothy; And Others – Humanities, 1997
Presents brief excerpts from the presidential papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The excerpts address such matters as voting rights, limited government, political appointments, national security, and the balance of power. (MJP)
Descriptors: Biographies, Civics, Decision Making, Democracy
Vetter, Donald P.; And Others – 1977
This unit on economic decision-making is the fourth of five units in a ninth grade social studies course (see SO 010 891). Major objectives are to help students (1) explain how dissent and protest may be used as effective means of change and to consider the consequences of such actions; (2) examine the judicial branch of government in order to…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Civil Disobedience, Communication Skills, Constitutional History