This study investigates civic and citizenship education in a unique post-Communist context--in the bilingual education system of Estonia. Estonia continues to have a bilingual school system where there are Estonian and Russian language schools in parallel. While Estonian language school students are ranked very high in international comparisons,…

This report examines the effects of exposure to various elements of a civics curriculum on civic participation, two forms of political knowledge, internal political efficacy, political cynicism, news elaboration, discussion elaboration and various forms of interpersonal and mediated political communication behaviors. The data are based on a…

This curriculum guide for an eighth grade civics course in a county in Florida was developed to provide a sequential program geared toward development of a positive self concept, "whole-some attitudes," functional citizenship, and educational enrichment. The guide presents five units--family and community, religion and education,…