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Do Service Learning and Active-Citizenship Learning Support Our Students to Live a Culture of Democracy?

Frontiers in Education, 2020
Civic thinking and civic attitude require values and norms for social togetherness and social engagement. Service learning and active-citizenship learning are high-impact pedagogies, well-documented as supporting civic-mindedness and a culture of ...
Ingrid Geier, Ulla Hasager
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Pedagogical practices and civic knowledge and engagement in Latin America: Multilevel analysis using ICCS data

Heliyon, 2023
This study explored the relationship between pedagogical practices and the civic knowledge and engagement of students from five Latin American and Caribbean countries, using a multilevel analysis of the 2016 International Civic and Citizenship Education ...
Ricardo L. Gómez, Ana María Suárez
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Political and Civic Engagement among Free School Alumni: A Range of Outcomes [PDF]

Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, 2023
Civic and political engagement are at an inflection point in the United States. While some forms of engagement are on a negative path (e.g. contested civic education, dwindling community group membership), other forms are increasing (e.g.
Kristan Morrison
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Stress Reduction in a High Stress Population: A Service-Learning Project

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2017
Psychology students delivered stress and coping workshops to homeless adolescent mothers as part of a college service-learning project. In this vulnerable and underserved population, stress reduction is critical. Service-learning was used as an avenue to
Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley, Lynn M. Donahue   +1 more
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College Students’ Civic Engagement Efficacy and Their Implementing Effects in Selected STEM Programs

SAGE Open, 2023
Previous studies on civic engagement have been reviewed in their contextual factors, for example, factors in organizational, pedagogical, and psychological domains, while little research has confirmed the structural linkage of related latent variables in
Dian-Fu Chang, Jhen-Yu You, Angel Chang
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Comparative Findings from the IEA Civic Study and Their Impact on the Improvement of Civic Education in Australia

Journal of Social Science Education, 2003
The IEA Civic Education Study occurred in a context of little formal civics curricula in Australian schools. The paper compares some Australian data with that from England and the USA.
Suzanne Mellor
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Gang Prevention from a Top-Down Perspective

Social Sciences
This paper presents a top-down approach to gang prevention, emphasizing the importance of addressing the complex structural conditions that accumulate to foster gang activity.
Abigail F. Kolb, William J. Kolb, Michael Favors   +2 more
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Holyoke Visible: A Public Art Project in Holyoke, Massachusetts

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
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Joseph Krupczynski
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EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: AMONG THE REAL AND VIRTUAL CIVIC INITIATIVE [PDF]

Istraživanja u Pedagogiji, 2017
The new media enable numerous advantages in the strengthening of civic engagement, through removing barriers in space and time and through networking of individuals of the same social, civic or political interests at the global level.
Jasmina Arsenijević, Milica Andevski
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DIFFERENT VALUES AS THE PREDICTORS OF VARIOUS FORMS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: THE POLISH CASE

Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
This article aims to examine the relationships between various forms of civic engagement and values, using a four-form model of civic engagement and the Shalom Schwartz model of values.
Ryszard KLAMUT
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