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Developing Social Responsibility and Political Engagement: Assessing the Aggregate Impacts of University Civic Engagement on Associated Attitudes and Behaviors
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Whitley, Cameron T.; Yoder, Scot D. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
Universities have become increasingly interested in incorporating civic engagement into undergraduate education with the goal of enhancing leadership skills and creating socially responsible global citizens. What is unclear is which educational experiences are most effective in achieving this goal. In this study, we seek to determine the impact of…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizen Participation, Social Responsibility, Service Learning
Urban Shrinkage as a Performance of Whiteness: Neoliberal Urban Restructuring, Education, and Racial Containment in the Post-Industrial, Global Niche City
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Pedroni, Thomas C. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
Although Detroit is not a centre of global finance, and plays a declining role in global production, it nevertheless participates in the present remediation of the relationship between cities and the globe. Manoeuvring to reposition the city as the global hub of mobility technology, metropolitan Detroit's neoliberal leadership advances particular…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Municipalities, Political Attitudes, Economic Development
Voter Behavior as an Expression of Community Attitudes Toward Desegregation. A Symposium Titled Equal Educational Opportunity and Quality Education: The Lansing Experience.
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Lezotte, Lawrence W. – 1976
An aspect of the Lansing, Michigan desegregation process that is examined in this paper is the school elections which have been held since 1969. The purpose of this examination is to determine what, if any, reliable voting patterns can be found in the Lansing community relative to the desegregation process. The assumption underlying this analysis…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Attitudes, Community Role
Attitudes of Pontiac Secondary School Students: The Second Year of Desegregated Education.
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1973
Pontiac schools were desegregated prior to the 1971-72 school year. Annual attitude surveys have been conducted to assess the impact of desegregation on parents, students, and staff. This report presents data on the attitudes and opinions of secondary school students concerning desegregation, school structure and climate, and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes
Secondary Student Attitudes and Satisfaction With School.
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1975
Measures of student satisfaction and other variables which are related to student reaction to their school are built into the design of this study, which hypothesizes that satisfaction will represent the students' global response to the learning environment, and that in turn, this global response will be related to certain performance…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes, Ethnic Groups