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Becoming the Rolling Quads: Disability Politics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s
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Danforth, Scot – History of Education Quarterly, 2018
Historical analyses of 1960s university campus activism have focused on activities related to the civil rights movement, Free Speech Movement, and opposition to the Vietnam War. This study supplements the historiography of civil disobedience and political activity on college campuses during that tumultuous era with an account of the initiation of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Activism, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech
Development through Dissent: Campus Activism as Civic Learning
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Biddix, J. Patrick – New Directions for Higher Education, 2014
This chapter traces two decades of published research on learning outcomes related to campus activism and reports results from a speculative study considering civic outcomes from participation in campus political and war demonstrations.
Descriptors: Activism, Citizen Participation, Civil Disobedience, Politics
Morality in Action - The Relationship between Moral Judgement and Moral Action of Israeli Reserve Soldiers Who Refused to Serve in Lebanon.
Linn, Ruth – 1985
During the Lebanon War (1982), many Israeli reserve soldiers disobeyed the command to join their units for service in Lebanon. Several of these soldiers were publicly labeled "sarvanim" meaning "refusers" in Hebrew, and were jailed in military prisons. Kohlberg's (1976) cognitive developmental approach to moralization, which…
Descriptors: Civil Disobedience, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Foreign Countries