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Andrew, Rebecca – History of Education, 2022
This article traces the evolution of the statutory Youth Service in rural Westmorland (now part of Cumbria), from its establishment in 1939 to the early post-war years. It focuses on how the county's Youth Service innovated and developed new ways of working with young country people in their spare time, and the challenges of introducing…
Descriptors: Educational History, Informal Education, Rural Areas, Service Learning
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Park, Woo-Yong; Kim, Chan-Jong – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2020
This research explored the characteristics of students' activities and their artifacts during their participation in climate change club projects and investigated the impacts of the club project participation on students' ecological citizenship. Climate change club projects were developed to help students understand climate change, investigate…
Descriptors: Clubs, Climate, Student Projects, Ecology
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Lee, Elsa Ukanyezi – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper makes a twofold contribution. Firstly it presents a typology of eco-clubs that can be used to contextualise eco-club observations by researchers and can support management of eco-clubs by practitioners. Secondly it explains how participation in eco-clubs provides a space for a child to both enact and develop as a citizen, a place for…
Descriptors: Clubs, Ecology, Conservation (Environment), Citizen Participation
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Moffa, Eric D. – Social Studies, 2016
To assist teachers in fostering students' global citizenship dispositions through service experiences, this article reports findings from a case study that investigated one high school's global service club and its impact on former club members' global awareness and global citizenship dispositions. Data were collected from Web-based documents and…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Global Approach, Global Education, Data Collection
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Burke, Anne; Collier, Diane R. – Teacher Development, 2017
This article shares teachers' conversations within teacher inquiry groups and considers how this reflective approach has potential for transforming teachers' practices. Conversations took place at the early stages of a longer teacher inquiry project and centred on the critical interrogation of social justice-oriented children's literature. These…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Inquiry, Childrens Literature, Teacher Attitudes
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Lindström, Lisbeth – International Education Studies, 2012
This article explores the relationship between gender, citizenship and leisure activities for youth. The purpose with the article is to describe, explore and discuss whether meeting places for youth such as youth clubs support their citizenship. Based on a case study of young people place, space and activities are explored and discussed from a…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Citizenship, Leisure Time, Youth