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de Groot, I.; Goodson, I. F.; Veugelers, W. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2014
In the last decade, educational scholars have studied various aspects of adolescents' citizenship narratives. This paper reports on a qualitative study into the narratives about democracy of 27 adolescents from an urban area in the Netherlands. The aim of the study was to gain an insight into the type of democratic engagement that Dutch…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Democracy, Definitions
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de Groot, Isolde; Goodson, Ivor; Veugelers, Wiel – Educational Review, 2014
Previous educational studies have investigated the impact of skills and contextual influences on adolescents' citizenship participation and efficacy. Yet, we know little about how adolescents give meaning to their citizenship efficacy. This study explores the narratives of 27 adolescents in the Netherlands on their citizenship efficacy. A thematic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Van Gent, Marije; Carabain, Christine; De Goede, Irene; Boonstoppel, Evelien; Hogeling, Lette – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2013
In this paper we report on the development of an inventory that measures global citizenship among adolescents. The methodology used consists of cognitive interviews for questionnaire design and explorative and confirmatory factor analyses among several datasets. The resulting Global Citizenship Inventory (GCI) includes a global citizenship…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Global Approach, Measures (Individuals), Adolescents
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Kjellin, Margareta Sandstrom; Stier, Jonas – Intercultural Education, 2008
The aim of the paper is to present and discuss a Report from a Comenius 2.1 project, aimed at developing teachers' interpersonal, intercultural, social and civic competence. The study presented in the report was a multiple case study, and the methods for collecting data were focus group dialogues (with 34 teacher students), one video recording in…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries