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Urban acupuncture : celebrating pinpricks of change that enrich city life
\"As Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner transformed his city into a global model of sustainability and livability. During more than forty years of innovation in cities, he has learned that changes do not need to be large-scale and expensive to transform-- one block, park, or person can have an outsized effect on life in the surrounding city.\"--Provided by publisher.
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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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Leaders who changed history
Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders Who Changed History profiles leaders from inspirational to insidious, those who changed the world for the better and those whose corruption left enduring scars. These figures hail from all walks of life - including political, military, religious, and business. Combining accessible text with specially commissioned illustrated portraits in a range of bold styles, photographs, infographics, and timelines, entries explore the lives and legacies of each individual in a fresh, visual way. Covering political masterminds and military geniuses such as Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, great kings and queens like Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great, icons of religion and rebellion from Mohammad to the Dalai Lama to Mahatma Ghandi, and captains of industry, Leaders Who Changed History explores and explains the world-changing actions of history's heroes and villains.
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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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The San Francisco Civic Center : a history of the design, controversies, and realization of a City Beautiful masterpiece
\"The first and only book available which describes the origins of American civic centers and then tells the history of the greatest of the them, the San Francisco Civic Center\"--Provided by publisher.
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Civic education, citizenship, and democracy
Critics suggest that youth lack basic civic knowledge and are disengaging from civic action, particularly political action. The validity of these criticisms depends on how civic knowledge and civic engagement are defined. The results of four studies of civic education, conducted by the IEA over a period of almost 50 years, are examined in terms of the definition of these concepts. Five questions are addressed: (1) What are the goals of civic education? (2) What is civic knowledge? (3) What is civic engagement? (4) What are civic attitudes and values? (5) What do we know about teaching civics in schools? The results suggest that (1) there is disagreement on the goals of civic education; (2) civic knowledge is often equated with the memorization of facts about government and politics; (3) civic engagement is different from political engagement, with today’s youth more interested in civic engagement; (4) civic attitudes and values may be more important than civic knowledge or engagement for preparing informed, productive citizens; and (5) there is limited time for teaching civics in schools, and the ways in which civics is currently taught are inconsistent with the kind of teaching needed.
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Be a community leader!
Explains everything young readers need to know about changing the world through community leadership, detailing the skills needed to be a good leader.
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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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The neighborhood project : using evolution to improve my city, one block at a time
An evolutionary biologist applies the ideas of evolutionary science to his post-industrial hometown and uses the \"traits\" he discovers, including what bullying feeds on and how neighborhood quality affects test scores, to improve the lives of his fellow citizens.
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Introduction: Theorizing the civic turn in European integration policies
Many authors have written about the ‘civic turn’ in European immigrant integration politics and policies that began in the late 1990s, but few have focused on the conceptual or normative dimensions of this turn. The purpose of this special issue is to help correct this situation. In this substantive introductory article, we begin with a discussion of the ‘convergence or national models’ debate that dominated early work on the subject. The next section presents the argument that civic integration is best understood as an ideological turn. It expands ‘good citizenship’ into personal conduct and values, shifts the responsibility for integration from the state to individuals and institutionalizes incentivizing and disciplining integration processes, which are often really just a means of migration control. This is accompanied, we argue, by a civic nationalist conception of membership that appeals to shared political values but defines those values through the culture of the state’s national majority. We then move on to the mechanisms and effects of civic integration, followed by a discussion of its normative analysis, before finally summarizing the articles included in this special issue and how they address the concerns that we have raised.
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