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Teaching history for the common good
This book reviews research on elementary & middle schools students' historical thinking.Grounded in the theoretical context of mediated action,it addresses the breadth of social practices, settings, purposes & tools that influence students.
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Uninformed: why people know so little about politics and what we can do about it
Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering even basic questions about government incorrectly. Given this unfortunate state of affairs, it is not surprising that more knowledgeable people often deride the public for its ignorance. Some experts even think that less informed citizens should stay out of politics altogether. As Arthur Lupia shows in Uninformed, this is not constructive. At root, critics of public ignorance fundamentally misunderstand the problem. Many experts believe that simply providing people with more facts will make them more competent voters. However, these experts fail to understand how most people learn, and hence don't really know what types of information are even relevant to voters. Feeding them information they don't find relevant does not address the problem. In other words, before educating the public, we need to educate the educators. Lupia offers not just a critique, though; he also has solutions. Drawing from a variety of areas of research on topics like attention span and political psychology, he shows how we can actually increase issue competence among voters in areas ranging from gun regulation to climate change. To attack the problem, he develops an arsenal of techniques to effectively convey to people information they actually care about. Citizens sometimes lack the knowledge that they need to make competent political choices, and it is undeniable that greater knowledge can improve decision making. But we need to understand that voters either don't care about or pay attention to much of the information that expertst think is important. Uninformed provides the keys to improving political knowledge and civic competence: understanding what information is important to others and knowing how to best convey it to them.
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Moral and civic education in French schools as a pillar of national citizenship and European citizenship
The concept of citizenship has always been the subject of controversy in terms of content and scope. France, which has always been characterised as a centralist state, clearly determines the principles and values that are to prevail in the Republic. However, as far as French citizenship is concerned, the debate revolves around how these values and principles function under the constraints of social life, how the cultural and moral contents of \"republic\" and \"secularism\" are constituted, and how these contents circulate, evolve, transform and produce results. Moreover, the problem is exacerbated by the emergence of the European Union as a result of having to assume the figure of dual citizenship, by virtue of Art. 9 of the Maastricht Treaty. Civic education, especially in non-university education, is therefore one of the main tools for achieving the desired social cohesion.
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Civic capital in unequal and uncertain times: individual, school, and contextual determinants
Understanding how young people develop civic capital is increasingly urgent in a period marked by democratic strain, social inequality and post-pandemic disruption. Using data from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), this study examines the multilevel contributions of family resources, school climate and temporal context to adolescents’ civic outcomes. Three-level mixed-effects models show that home literacy and cultural resources are among the strongest predictors of civic development, exceeding the influence of parental socioeconomic status alone. Open classroom climate is a key institutional factor that attenuates inequalities associated with family background. Results further reveal divergent civic pathways shaped by students’ backgrounds and their interactions with families and schools: immigrant youth display lower civic knowledge but higher civic efficacy and participation, while advantaged students show stronger knowledge-based outcomes. Temporal comparisons indicate increased civic participation alongside weaker civic knowledge and efficacy in the later cycle, pointing to the growing influence of post-pandemic conditions and digitally mediated participation. The findings shed light on the importance of dialogic, inclusive civic education policies that strengthen student voice and democratic classroom practices as well as the recognition in divergent pathways of developing civic capital.
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Popular culture and the civic imagination : case studies of creative social change
\"\"Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination\" examines case studies of creative social change\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dream Play Build
The room is dim, the chairs are in perfectly lined rows.The city planner puts up a color-coded diagram of the street improvement project, dreading the inevitable angry responses.Jana loves her community and is glad to be able to attend the evening meeting, and she has a lot of ideas for community change.
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