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Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the Civic Capacity Index

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee, David Chrislip, Patti Schmitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civic Engagement Scale

SAGE Open, 2013
This study reports on the development and validation of the Civic Engagement Scale (CES). This scale is developed to be easily administered and useful to educators who are seeking to measure the attitudes and behaviors that have been affected by a ...
Amy Doolittle, Anna C. Faul
doaj   +1 more source

New Voices at the Civic Table: Facilitating Personal and Social Change [PDF]

, 2009
· This article describes six pilot initiatives of the Alliance for Children and Families -- New Voices at the Civic Table (New Voices), a philanthropy-funded effort to challenge human service organizations to integrate civic engagement as a permanent ...
Linda Nguyen, Nguyen, Linda, Pinsoneault, Laura T., Laura T. Pinsoneault   +3 more
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth‐Century Occupational Medicine

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Alberto Zanatta, Paola Mason, Sofia Bollini, Giovanni Magno   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civic Engagement at the Crossroads of Online and Offline Spaces: A PLS-SEM Assessment

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2019
This study addresses citizen implication in societal issues, and analysis it at the crossroads of online and offline spaces. It draws on previous literature to advance a research model which differentiates between online and offline forms of civic ...
Adriana Zait, Andreia Gabriela Andrei
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming the World in Which We Live: Laureate's Transnational Civic Learning Project

Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017
Higher education serves as an agent of social change that plays a significant role in the development of socially conscious and engaged students. The duty higher education has toward society, the role for-profit educational institutions play in enhancing
William M. Plater
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Civic engagement and mental health system strengthening in Indonesia: a qualitative examination of the views of health professionals and national key stakeholders

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Mental health services in Indonesia are developing rapidly in response to national and global health policy to support people living with psychosis.
Irman Irmansyah, Herni Susanti, Karen James, Karina Lovell, Sri Idaiani, Soimah Imah, Giur Hargiana, Budi-Anna Keliat, Bagus Utomo, Erminia Colucci, Helen Brooks   +10 more
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Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
wiley   +1 more source

Bürgerschaftliches Engagement, Koproduktion und das Leitbild gleichwertiger Lebensbedingungen

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2017
Support of civic engagement and co-production aiming at the delivery of public services implies a spatial dilemma. The majority of people engaged are located in prosperous regions that further benefit from public support of civic engagement, while this ...
Anna Butzin, Stefan Gärtner
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