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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 ...
Nguyen, Linda, Pinsoneault, Laura T.
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Ships Passing In The Night? [PDF]

, 2014
In this Cousins Research Group Report, David Mathews describes two different civic engagement movements. One is underway in higher education. On campuses across the country, leadership and service learning programs are growing, and students are taught ...
David Mathews
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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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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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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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Millennials: Shifting Values and Influences for Civic Engagement

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2019
Civic engagement is a complex field of study covering a spectrum of activities and is well-documented, especially among the millennial generation. Individuals of Generation Y, also referred to as millennials, are quickly approaching the point of becoming
Marlene K. Rebori
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Factors related to health civic engagement: results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to understand progress towards a Culture of Health

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Civic engagement, including voting, volunteering, and participating in civic organizations, is associated with better psychological, physical and behavioral health and well-being.
Tamara Dubowitz, Christopher Nelson, Sarah Weilant, Jennifer Sloan, Andy Bogart, Carolyn Miller, Anita Chandra   +6 more
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Venturing sustainability: Political lessons from civic engagement and transformative learning in Asia

APN Science Bulletin, 2021
Current studies on civic engagement offer a critical examination of global civil society's struggles for a sustainable future. The liberal conception of civic engagement sees citizens as voluntary and participatory political subjects ...
Maharani Hapsari, Dicky Sofjan, Theodore Mayer   +2 more
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Dynamics of Faculty Engagement in the Movement for Democracy's Education at Nothern Arizona University: Backgrounds, Practices, and Future Horizons [PDF]

, 2015
As scholarship has become increasingly narrow and disconnected from public life, Kettering research has documented an intense sense of malaise in higher education, what Harry Boyte has called a loss of civic agency.
Blase Scarnati, Romand Coles
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