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Download full textMarcia 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
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Direct linkBowman, Benjamin; Germaine, Chloé – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
In this article, we consider the climate strikes in the context of intergenerational narratives that de/limit young people's political subjectivities and imaginaries concerning climate change. Considering the strikes alongside other youth-led responses to the crisis, we reconsider the question of young people's climate change 'literacy' and posit…
Descriptors: Climate, Activism, Civics, Environmental Education
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
Jason Headrick – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2024
Civic leadership programming can be found across the United States and allows individuals the opportunity to gain skills focused on engaging their local community, creating space for change and impact to occur, and developing civic agency, a practice of working together across differences. This work describes civic leadership understanding, an…
Descriptors: Civics, Leadership Training, Universities, Program Descriptions
Brianna Lafoon; Elizabeth C. Crotty – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2025
This project centered Indigenous history, culture, and sovereignty while also teaching about scientific principles connected to plants, agriculture, and gardening--key ideas the authors and professors hoped their preservice teachers (PSTs) would be able to use with the young learners in their future classrooms. The purpose of this work is for PSTs…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Social Studies
Lee, Jacquelyn J.; McCunney, Dennis – New Directions for Higher Education, 2021
Democracy requires an informed populous that is engaged, politically, and otherwise, and concerned for the safety and wellbeing of its communities. Public institutions of higher education play a pivotal role in democracy, and a direct pathway to this result is civic learning and democratic engagement (CLDE). Now more than ever, a sharper focus on…
Descriptors: Democracy, Civics, Citizenship Education, College Role
Alan Schoenfeld; Kyndall Brown; Judit Moschkovich; Harold Asturias; Danny Martin – National Academy of Education, 2024
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) Civic Reasoning and Discourse project aims to support civic reasoning and discourse in the schools by helping teachers across disciplines to prepare youth in the United States to examine and discuss complex issues in ways that are thoughtful, developmentally appropriate, and respectful of others' opinions…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Education
Olga Yashenkova – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2025
The ongoing war in Ukraine highlighted the urgent need to develop democratic competences, including critical thinking, intercultural communication, cooperation and active civic participation, to preserve democracy during adversity. This study explored how integrating action learning within Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Democratic Values
Carol D. Lee; Na'ilah Suad Nasir; Mary Helen Immordino-Yang – National Academy of Education, 2024
Education plays a central role in preparing young people to engage thoughtfully in civic and community issues and to wrestle with complex dilemmas in the public domain. As a democracy, our system of governance offers multiple pathways through which people living in the country can influence how civic issues and dilemmas are addressed.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Civics, Ethics
Kate Haq; Monica Miles; Ann Ditto – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This program evaluation outlines the process, challenges, and outcomes of decolonizing middle school curriculum through an interdisciplinary approach. A diverse team of educators conducted a curriculum audit and restructuring initiative in a Western New York independent school. Faced with data analysis challenges, the team devised an Environmental…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Environmental Education, Social Justice, Decolonization
Sarah McGrew; Joel Breakstone – AERA Open, 2023
Given the current threat posed by toxic digital content, preparing students to evaluate online sources cannot be relegated to a single subject area--this instruction should happen across the curriculum. This article focuses on materials designed to teach students to evaluate online information across subject areas. ninth-grade biology and world…
Descriptors: Civics, Digital Literacy, Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources
Emeline Roy; Matt McLain – Curriculum Journal, 2025
Applied arts and artistic cultures are taught in vocational high schools, in France, with the aim of developing civic and social skills in students, which are cross-cutting or generic. To achieve this, this design education revolves around the creation and conception of artefacts. This article explores epistemological issues relating to the role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, Intellectual Disciplines
Lucas, Melissa A.; Anderson, Lindsey B.; Gray, Katlin – Communication Teacher, 2022
Incorporating civic engagement in the undergraduate curriculum has become a goal in higher education generally and the communication discipline specifically. Given this emerging priority, we offer a framework that integrates civic engagement in the communication classroom and meets students and instructors needs, experience, and goals. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Civics, Undergraduate Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Problems
Natarajarathinam, Malini; Qiu, Shaoping; Lu, Wei – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2023
In this paper, we describe an innovative design for a multidisciplinary service-learning course on supply chain management in the industrial distribution program housed in the College of Engineering at a large research university in Texas. The purpose of this course was to increase students' technical expertise and build a mindset and skills…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Information Management, Curriculum Design, Interdisciplinary Approach
Kimi Waite; Jennifer Burgin – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2023
In this article, Kimi Waite and Jennifer Burgin describe a three-step interdisciplinary framework for learning partnerships between TK-2 students and scientists that covers the NCSS themes SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY and PEOPLE, PLACES, AND ENVIRONMENTS. The authors showcase standards-aligned learning activities and resources to help practicing…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
