Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ450807
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
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Children: Toward Their Civic Skills and Civic Involvement.
Nader, Ralph
Social Education, v56 n4 p212-14 Apr-May 1992
Discusses projects used by some teachers, texts, and other instructional materials for teaching the responsibility and participatory aspects of citizenship. Suggests that texts currently in use neglect teaching the protection of rights. Argues that corporations do more educating than schools through their commercials. Questions how some teachers overcome these difficulties and teach civic responsibility. (DK)
Descriptors: Activism, Advertising, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Consumer Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Lobbying, Secondary School Curriculum, Social Action, Social Responsibility, Student Attitudes, Student Participation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
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