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Pereira, Carolyn – 1993
The growing population of "English-as-second language" (ESL) students in the United States need to learn how to cope with the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the U.S. Because of this, civic education should pervade the curriculum for ESL students. This ERIC digest treats five facets of civic education for ESL students: (1)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Citizenship Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development
Patrick, John J. – 1997
There are more than 100 democracies in the world today. All but three of them--Great Britain, Israel, and New Zealand --have written constitutions. This digest examines the importance of constitutions and constitutionalism and the teaching of these concepts through the use of comparisons. The primary objectives of civic education for democratic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Communism, Comparative Analysis