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Civic Theater for Civic Education

Journal of Political Science Education, 2005
ABSTRACT This study illustrates the special value of theater for conducting civic education. It begins by identifying the features of good citizenship in the United States. Citizenship in America includes rights, interests, affections, duties, and virtues.
BERNARD L. BRAY, LARRY W. CHAPPELL
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Innovations in Civic Education: Developing Civic Agency Through Action Civics

Theory & Research in Social Education, 2016
AbstractIt is imperative that schools and communities give students opportunities to participate in active citizenship and prepare them with the important skills and dispositions needed to become informed citizens. Action civics is a promising practice that puts students at the heart of civics learning by providing them with the opportunity to learn ...
Brooke Blevins, Karon LeCompte, Sunny Wells   +2 more
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Civic Work Civic Lessons

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, 2017
Review of Civic Work Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service by Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu.
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Parent Civic Beliefs, Civic Participation, Socialization Practices, and Child Civic Engagement

Applied Developmental Science, 2015
We examined civic engagement in middle childhood and the degree to which parents’ civic beliefs (i.e., social trust and civic efficacy), civic participation, and socialization practices were associated with indicators of children's civic engagement (i.e., social responsibility and civic values). Survey data were collected from 359 racially, ethnically,
Elizabeth S. White, Rashmita S. Mistry
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Civic Talk and Civic Participation

American Politics Research, 2009
Individuals who discuss politics and current events in their social network also participate in civic activities. However, analytical biases make it difficult to show a causal relationship between these two phenomena. To obtain a more accurate measurement of the effect that civic talk has on civic participation, data were collected through a panel ...
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Adolescents' Civic Engagement: Concordant and Longitudinal Associations Among Civic Beliefs and Civic Involvement

Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2018
Associations between adolescent civic and organized activities (volunteering, standard political, social movement, school/community, religious) and civic beliefs (comprised of should, obligation, and respect judgments) were examined. Cross‐sectional models (N = 703, Mage = 15.87) indicated domain specificity between adolescent civic beliefs and ...
Aaron, Metzger, Kaitlyn A, Ferris, Benjamin, Oosterhoff   +2 more
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Civic Socialization and Civic Participation

2011
The book began with an argument that citizens have from the nation’s earliest days been confronted by two different and often contradictory motivations for participation in civic and political life: self-interest and civic duty. While the founders were certainly not of a unified mind on the value of either one to the civic health of the new republic ...
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Mother–adolescent civic messages: Associations with adolescent civic behavior and civic judgments

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2016
Abstract Observational and multi-informant survey data were used to examine associations among mothers' civic behavior, observed mother–adolescent messages about civic responsibility, and adolescents' judgments about civic duty and civic behavior. Adolescents ( N  = 144, M age  = 14.49 [12–18] years) and their mothers ( N  = 144) participated in a ...
Benjamin Oosterhoff, Aaron Metzger
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Against Civic Schooling

Social Philosophy and Policy, 2004
A fierce debate about civic education in American public schools has erupted in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many liberals and conservatives, though they disagree strongly about which civic virtues to teach, share the assumption that such education is an appropriate responsibility for public schools.
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Civic Action

The entry deals with civic activism in the public realm through a definition of the concepts that define the phenomenon and the presentation of a a repertoire of civic action "technologies".
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