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Akar, Bassel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Large-scale quantitative studies on citizenship and citizenship education research have advanced an international and comparative field of democratic citizenship education. Their instruments, however, informed by theoretical variables constructed in Western Europe and North America mostly measure young people's understandings of a predefined…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship, Educational Research, Democratic Values
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Pashby, Karen – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
This paper presents a critical framework applied to findings from a critical discourse analysis of curriculum and lesson plans in Alberta to examine the assumption that Canada is an ideal place for global citizenship education. The analysis draws on a framework that presents a critique of modernity to recognize a conflation within calls for new…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Multicultural Education, Discourse Analysis
Arbreton, Amy – Public/Private Ventures, 2009
The third in a series of reports from P/PV's three-year study of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth they serve, "Making Every Day Count" examines how Club participation is related to youth's positive and healthy development in three outcome areas identified by Boys & Girls Clubs of America as central to its mission: good…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness, Grade 9
Mellor, Suzanne; Ainley, John; Fraillon, Julian; Wernert, Nicole – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2006
The National Assessment Program--Civics and Citizenship assessment measures the civic knowledge and understanding and the citizenship participation skills and civic values of Year 6 and Year 10 students in schools across Australia. It reports on student achievement using proficiency levels on a common civics and citizenship assessment scale, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Grade 10, Citizenship Education
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White, Brian; Haberling, Jennifer – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2006
In response to increased violence, bullying, and anti-social behavior among young people in our schools and on our streets (Akiba, M., LeTendre, G., Baker, D., & Goesling, B., 2002; Leming, 1996; Males, 2001; Pellegrini & Bartini, 2000; Smagorinsky, 2002; Tendero, 2000), advocates of character education have proposed and instituted a…
Descriptors: Literature, Citizenship Education, Language Arts, Reading Materials
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2004
In 2004, the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) conducted an assessment of a sample of Year 6 and Year 10 students across Australia to assess their proficiency in civics and citizenship. The assessment of civics and citizenship is part of a national plan that is being put progressively in place to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Grade 10