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Nzahabwanayo, Sylvestre; Finchilescu, Gillian; Divala, Joseph J. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2019
Teachers play a crucial role in the political socialization of adolescents. Using Q-Methodology, we explored high school teachers' conceptions of good citizenship in post-genocide Rwanda. Teachers ranked 50 statements, describing a 'good citizen', on a 9-column grid, anchored by 'least important citizenship behaviour' and 'most important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, Political Socialization, Citizenship
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Nieuwelink, Hessel; ten Dam, Geert; Dekker, Paul – Research Papers in Education, 2019
Studies show adults' attitudes towards citizenship to be related to their educational level. It has been claimed that higher educated people more often possess 'good' citizenship values. However, only limited insight exists into how differences in citizenship attitudes between adolescents from various educational tracks develop over time. In this…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizenship Education, Political Socialization, Adolescent Attitudes
Neumann, Henry – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
The best expression of a people's ideals is to be found in their literature, and there is no better or more effective means of disseminating these ideals among the masses of the people than through the right use of the best of the literature in the schools and elsewhere. The great struggle in which the United States is now engaged for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Educational History, Political Socialization