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Shah, Rabi; Brett, Peter – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2021
The article explores how educational policy, curricula, textbooks and teaching have translated thinking about Nepal's relationship with the rest of the world into global education practice in Nepalese schools in contemporary classrooms. Drawing upon the framework of a policy cycle approach, the article addresses the following research questions:…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Vandeyar, Saloshna – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2021
Using the theoretical framework of pedagogy of compassion and single embedded case study methodology, this article explores how a teacher negotiates the contours of migration and social transformation to promote education for global citizenship. The research site was a former white school in South Africa. The research sample was a female Indian…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Altruism, Social Change, Citizenship Education
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Karakus, Mehmet; Türkkan, Buket Turhan; Öztürk, Fikriye – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The document review method, which is a qualitative research method, was used in this study that aims to examine the social studies curriculum and course books in terms of attainments, teaching-learning process and measurement-evaluation process in the context of global citizenship. Furthermore, opinions of social studies teachers on the curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Elementary School Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum
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Rapoport, Anatoli – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2010
Globalization significantly influences the very notion of citizenship by challenging the key principle of citizenship as idiosyncratically nation or nation-state related concept.Therefore, the discourse of global citizenship is getting more attention in programmatic educational texts and curricula. However, unlike their colleagues in Europe,…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Patriotism
Sharp, Kimberlee A. – Online Submission, 2009
This study examined the perspectives of a sample of Appalachian middle and high school social studies teachers regarding the teaching of controversial current events. Specifically, the survey ascertained the teachers' familiarity with school district administrative policies regarding the teaching of controversial current events, their perceptions…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Current Events, Familiarity, Skill Development
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Cayir, Kenan; Bagli, Melike Turkan – Intercultural Education, 2011
The incorporation of compulsory courses on human rights into the secondary school curriculum in 1998 has been an important first step in developing respect for human rights and responsibilities among the younger generation in Turkey. Yet, these courses have many shortcomings in terms of materials, pedagogy and teacher attitudes. This paper…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
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Obenchain, Kathryn M.; Pennington, Julie L.; Orr, Angela – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
This qualitative case study examines one secondary social studies teacher's enactment of her critical constructivist beliefs in teaching for democratic citizenship education. Results are organized around the knowledge, skills, and dispositions addressed, and their consistency with critical constructivism. The teacher's practices were consistent…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Democracy, Citizenship Education, Social Studies
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Cleaver, Elizabeth; Ireland, Eleanor; Kerr, David; Lopes, Joana – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2006
The Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), aims to identify, measure and evaluate the extent to which effective practice in citizenship education develops in schools so that such practice can be promoted widely. The…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries