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Civic Competence in Urban Youth
Applied Developmental Science, 2002Civic competence and obstacles to its development are explored in urban youth. Our review suggests that urban youth lag behind suburban adolescents in civic knowledge and civic participation. These lags may be attributable to low levels of political participation among urban adults, educational failures, and a lack of childhood opportunities to join ...
Daniel Hart, Robert Atkins
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2017
How we think about civic participation has changed dramatically in the last decade. This affects research and it affects education, practice and policy. These changes derive in part from a changing perspective on democratic processes in stable industrialized societies, but in part also from taking seriously the conditions, forms of governance and ...
Helen Haste +2 more
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How we think about civic participation has changed dramatically in the last decade. This affects research and it affects education, practice and policy. These changes derive in part from a changing perspective on democratic processes in stable industrialized societies, but in part also from taking seriously the conditions, forms of governance and ...
Helen Haste +2 more
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Developing civic competence through action civics: A longitudinal look at the data
The Journal of Social Studies Research, 2020This paper describes student outcomes from participating in a week-long out-of-school action civics program designed to increase students’ civic and political competence and engagement. Using analysis from four years of survey data, this paper presents findings related to changes in students’ civic competence as a result of participating in the ...
Karon LeCompte +2 more
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Civic Norms and Communication Competence
2014Abstract The chapter examines the extant literature on political socialization, focusing on the role of communication in this process. Reviewing a wide range of approaches to socialization—from those stressing the role the institutions that teach young people civic values and practices to those emphasizing the role of dispositions that ...
Dhavan V. Shah +4 more
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Civic Competencies and Students with Disabilities
The Journal of Social Studies Research, 2005Increasing numbers of students with disabilities receive a majority of their formal education in general education settings where they must be taught the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to lead fully equitable and participatory lives in a democratic society.
Gregory E. Hamot +2 more
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Leisure, social capital and civic competence
Leisure/Loisir, 2006Abstract Initial enthusiasm over social capital—since the mid‐1990s among the most widely debated concepts in social science—is being tempered by increasing criticism. With some exceptions, this development is not reflected in discussions of leisure and social capital, which remain dominated by Putnam's early formulation of social capital as a ...
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Political Disagreement and Socratic Civic Competence
Political Studies, 2005Contemporary democratic theories that draw on Socrates for inspiration have addressed his method of investigation too narrowly because there has been insufficient attention to the need for authority, which Socrates also identifies. Because his appeals to authority initially appear antidemocratic, we cannot overlook this aspect of his thought.
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The Civic Competence of High-School Seniors
The Journal of Educational Research, 1946In recent years critics of public education have at times been out spoken and bitter. It is therefore quite gratifying to find instances in which employers of high-school young people have been highly complimentary in evaluating the qualities possessed by those young people.
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21st Century Civic Competences
Civic competences have as their reference sphere the axiological field of education reflected at the level of the general contents of moral education, value-oriented through the general and specific objectives of moral education, value-ordered through the normativity of moral education supported especially by the principle of concordance between ...openaire +1 more source
Navigating competing conceptions of civic education: lessons from three Israeli civics classrooms
Oxford Review of Education, 2016AbstractThe concentration of this study was the documentation and analysis of ways in which competing conceptions of citizenship play out in actual classroom settings. Examining three cases in the context of the Israeli education system, its findings show that civics teachers’ views and beliefs influenced ways in which they interpreted the curriculum ...
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