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Using the Classroom to Cultivate Student Support for Participation in Campus Life: The Call for Civic Education Interventions
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Strachan, J. Cherie – Journal of Political Science Education, 2008
Extracurricular campus activities mirror the effects of associational life on political participation (Kuh 1995; Pascarella, Ethington, and Smart 1988; Verba, Schlozman, and Brady 1995). As encouraging student participation in such activities can be difficult (Kuh, Schuh, Whitt, Andreas, Lyons, Strange, Krehbiel, and MacKay 1991), this project…
Descriptors: Control Groups, College Students, Class Activities, Self Efficacy
Keeping the Peace in an Age of Conflict: Debating the U.S. Role. Choices for the 21st Century.
Lhowe, Mary, Ed. – 1994
This document presents a particularly challenging unit that thrusts students into the new foreign policy frontier that has developed since the end of the Cold War. The unit contains background reading and foreign policy options. The first part of the background reading introduces students to the institutions and conceptual framework of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Conflict Resolution, Foreign Policy, International Relations
The Struggle for Peace in Bosnia: Considering U.S. Options. Choices for the 21st Century. Alternatives for Public Debate and Policy Development.
Brown Univ., Providence, RI. Center for Foreign Policy Development. – 1993
The conflict in Bosnia (Yugoslavia) has confronted U.S. leaders with fundamental questions about the use and capability of U.S. power abroad. This document brings the decision facing the United States into the classroom. The unit features a set of four divergent options for U.S. policy toward the Bosnian conflict, and a brief account of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Conflict Resolution, Ethnic Bias, Foreign Countries