‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Cultural identity as part of civic education of adolescents [PDF]
Sociální Pedagogika, 2017 The aim of this article is to provide information about how identity is formed in relation to civic education. The author of this study was inspired by Juha Hämiläinen's thesis, which claims that social pedagogy should become the main tool for building ...
Helena Skarupská
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Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic Engagement [PDF]
, 2008 Part of the Volume on Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth. Teaching young people how to use digital media to convey their public voices could connect youthful interest in identity exploration and social interaction with direct ...
Howard Rheingold
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Legal standing and civic identity of Athenian mercenaries: A case study [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2015 The author examines different issues considering legal and social standing of mercenaries, mostly being focused upon the fourth court speech (On the Estate of Nicostratus) of the Athenian speech-writer Isaeus, teacher of Demosthenes.
Avramović Sima
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Connectedness and the Sociopolitical Involvement of Same-Gender-Loving Black Men [PDF]
, 2013 Employing a national sample of over 800 same-gender-loving black men, we explore the relative impact of community-level support/comfort and the importance of sexual orientation and racial identity on two dependent variables—sociopolitical involvement ...
Battle, Juan, Harris, Angelique
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Does ‘clicking’ matter? The role of online participation in adolescents’ civic development
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2017 This study focuses on the role of online civic participation in the civic development of adolescents. We build on the assumption that online civic participation differs from more traditional offline civic participation in several key characteristics ...
Hana Machackova, Jan Šerek
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The Lens of Civic Identity: A Developmental Model for Undergraduate Education
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2023 For democracy to thrive, citizens must be engaged participants. Higher education must foster the growth of citizens through experience. This will enable undergraduates to develop their individual Civic Identities, whereby they see themselves as “active ...
Annie Jonas +2 more
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Why is Globalization a Threat to Africa? A Study of the Thought of Claude Ake on African Migration to the City and Some of Its Consequences [PDF]
, 2011 Globalization is seen positively by those to whose societies it brings measurable benefits. Claude Ake, one of the most outstanding African thinkers of the second half of the 20th century and a great advocate for constructing democracy in Africa ...
Trzcinski, Krzysztof
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