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Institute for Citizens & Scholars, 2021
The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (C&S) is fundamentally rethinking how young people prepare to be productive lifelong citizens. A critical element of this work is engaging youth at the intersection of community and civic life. C&S' work has proven that significant civic learning takes place in after-school programs, on the sports…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation
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Kim, Juhee; Wargo, Elizabeth – Leadership and Research in Education, 2022
This study informs the field of education of the importance of providing a wide variety of extracurricular activities for students and its effect on students' community leadership development. Data were collected from college students (N = 705) and analyzed using quantitative methodology. Results indicate that high involvement level students…
Descriptors: Leadership, Extracurricular Activities, College Students, Community Involvement
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Saleh, Edrees Sultan; Gandy, S. Kay – Intercultural Education, 2015
The study aimed to compare the perceptions of Egyptian and US students on global issues. The authors developed a survey of global issues and administered it to sample of 321 Geography students in the USA and Egypt. The survey tapped five issues: global citizenship, cultural diversity, global conflicts, nuclear arms race, and global warming. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Geography
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Payne, Pamela B.; McDonald, Daniel A. – Journal of Extension, 2015
Community-based education programs must demonstrate effectiveness to various funding sources. The pilot study reported here (funded by CYFAR, NIFA, USDA award #2008-41520-04810) had the goal of determining if state level programs with varied curriculum could use a common evaluation tool to demonstrate efficacy. Results in parenting and youth…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Extension Education, State Programs, Evaluation Methods
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Reysen, Stephen; Katzarska-Miller, Iva; Gibson, Shonda A.; Hobson, Braken – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2013
We examine the influence of factual and perceived world knowledge on global citizenship identification. Perceived world knowledge directly predicted global citizenship identification, while factual world knowledge did not (Study 1). Students' factual (Study 1) and perceived (Study 2) world knowledge predicted students' normative environment…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Prediction, Global Approach, Citizenship
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Lewis, Theodore – Technology Teacher, 2009
In this article, the author presents an excerpt from his speech delivered at the Foundation for Technology Education (FTE) Spirit of Excellence Breakfast in Louisville, Kentucky, in Marcy 2009. The author focuses on people whose work reflect excellence and social responsibility. He uses this frame of excellence and social responsibility to reflect…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Foreign Countries, Success, Evaluation
FRIEDRICH, RICHARD L. – 1967
EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT MOST PROBLEMS RELATING TO CIVIC LEADERSHIP STEM FROM INADEQUATE UNDERSTANDING OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AMONG LESS AFFLUENT CITIZENS AND FROM THE LACK OF MEANS TO PROJECT CIVIC PRIDE AND LEADERSHIP. IN A PROGRAM FUNDED BY A FEDERAL GRANT, BELLARMINE COLLEGE BROUGHT ITS RESOURCES TO BEAR ON THIS PROBLEM BY ESTABLISHING IN…
Descriptors: Budgets, Citizenship, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Problems
Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2008
"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Public Health, Partnerships in Education
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1999
The goal of Kentucky social studies education is to help students become contributing, participating, and knowledgeable citizens. To achieve this goal, students must know, understand, and apply the content and concepts of the various sub-disciplines of social studies (government and civics, history, geography, economics, culture and society). This…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Citizenship, Civics, Core Curriculum