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Diana Sousa; Laura Oxley – Educational Review, 2024
In societies where authoritarian and populist perspectives are on the rise, a focus on the concept of democracy within education can provide a meaningful space to reflect critically on, and disrupt, the status quo. In post-dictatorship Portugal, democracy has become a central symbolic concept within education policy and, in particular, Early…
Descriptors: Democracy, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education
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Hamilton, Laura S.; Kaufman, Julia H. – Educational Assessment, 2022
The "twin pandemics" of racial injustice and COVID-19 have underscored the importance of promoting civic knowledge, skills, dispositions, and engagement among the nation's young people. Although some evidence has demonstrated that civic-learning opportunities are inequitably distributed across U.S. schools and communities, we currently…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Citizenship Education, Educational Quality, Educational Indicators
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Yoon, Haeny S. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
With renewed emphasis on civic education in K-12 schools, educators and politicians call for young people to engage in civic action. Worth considering are the kinds of ideas taken up, the performances deemed "critical" enough, and actions recognized in schools as civic engagement. Drawing from a case study of second graders in New York…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Citizenship Education, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda; Kaloustian, Garene; Wesley Bonet, Sally; Chatila, Samira – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2018
Across the world, education is tasked with rebuilding societies torn apart by violent conflict and riven by economic injustice. In this article, we focus on kindergarten education in the vulnerable, conflict-ridden Lebanese context. However, rather than analyzing the academic learning offered to the children, we consider the affective civic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Citizenship Education, Social Development
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Olivares-García, M. A.; González-Alfaya, M. E.; Mérida-Serrano, R.; Muñoz-Moya, M. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
This dissertation assesses an innovation experience carried out by the RIECU network (Early Childhood Education Schools -Teachers' Centre- University). The aim is to enable children to investigate the wealth of their city's heritage through an inclusive proposal, due to the value of a paradigm of peaceful intercultural coexistence. 234 people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Young Children
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and a general education survey. Data and discussion are included on education administration; city schools systems in cities of both more than and less than 25,000 population; rural education; secondary education; higher education; medical education; homeopathic medical education;…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Secondary Education