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Guns, Schools, and Democracy: Adolescents Imagining Social Futures through Speculative Civic Literacies
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
This article analyzes how guns emerged as both urgent topics of dialogue and common features of everyday life for 228 students and their teachers in six communities across the United States who participated in the Digital Democratic Dialogue (3D) Project, a year long social design-based experiment aimed at foregrounding youth voice and fostering…
Descriptors: Weapons, Civics, Citizenship Education, Violence
"I Hesitate but I Do Have Hope": Youth Speculative Civic Literacies for Troubled Times
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this essay, Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia explore how young people from six demographically distinct communities across the United States understand the social and political issues affecting their lives, engage in storytelling and dialogue across differences, and collaboratively imagine humanizing and hopeful civic futures. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Political Issues, Story Telling, Dialogs (Language)
The Common Standards Movement and the Role of Social Studies on the Internet
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Risinger, C. Frederick – Social Education, 2010
The national common educational standards and the role of citizenship education is an important issue for all social studies educators--preK through college. This article presents websites that examine the Common Core Standards Initiative's work and plans for the future and some that focus more specifically on the social studies/citizenship…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Teachers, National Curriculum