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Jenifer A. Crawford; Robert A. Filback; Pedro A. Noguera – Teacher Educator, 2025
The University of Southern California (USC) Democracy Project responds to the inadequacies of traditional civics education, particularly its failure to engage marginalized students in meaningful democratic participation. Grounded in the theories of John Dewey and Paulo Freire, the project uses an action civics model to connect students with…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Citizenship Education, State Universities, Democracy
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Rupamanjari Hegde – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
A national system of education in modern nation-states is usually geared towards nation-building and schools play a significant role in grooming children as future citizens. While the dominant and powerful usually emerge as the 'ideal citizen' in the national imagination, the marginalized are constructed as the 'other', vilified, and stigmatised.…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Citizenship Education, Hidden Curriculum, Citizen Participation