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Shaping Reflective Political Leaders
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Louise Malmström – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
Unlike many other countries, in Sweden there are more significant paths to political leadership than the university degree. Most Swedish political parties offer leadership training programmes that include practical and ideological content and several have a design rooted in the popular education movement. This article explores how party political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Officials, Political Affiliation, Political Candidates
Bridging a Polarizing Divide: Election Simulation in an AP Government Course
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Lo, Jane C. – Social Studies, 2018
This article reports on a study that asks how might an elections simulation influence students with strong polarizing political beliefs? The elections simulation asks students to take on roles as candidate teams, political party leaders, interest groups, and media outlets in a mock presidential election. Students not only learn about elections but…
Descriptors: High School Students, Advanced Placement Programs, United States Government (Course), Civics
Joining Young, Voting Young: The Effects of Youth Voluntary Associations on Early Adult Voting. CIRCLE Working Paper #73
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Thomas, Reuben J.; McFarland, Daniel A. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2010
Adolescent voluntary associations are particularly well positioned in the life course to encourage voting as youth become full citizens. Extracurriculars socialize students into voting by habituating them to civic engagement and by connecting them to politically engaged cultures. We establish this argument by testing the effects of high school…
Descriptors: Voting, Ideology, Young Adults, Adolescents
The Current Conditions of Those Involved in Ideological and Political Education of College and University Students, and a Proposal.
Li, Zhixiang; And Others – Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1989
Surveys the role of political and ideological education leaders among university students in China. Reports a study done at Beijing University that measured the amount of political education received by political leaders and measured opinions about political education work. Suggestions are proposed to improve attitudes concerning political…
Descriptors: Communism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Ideology
Beyond Communitarianism: Citizenship, Politics and Education.
Demaine, Jack, Ed.; Entwistle, Harold, Ed. – 1996
Thirteen authors reflect on different ideas of communitarianism and citizenship and on the ways those ideas find application in the fields of education, politics, and social welfare. Looking beyond communitarian ideology, the volume offers a more detailed discussion of citizenship in contemporary society. The essays are: (1) "Beyond…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, Civil Liberties
Is the Child a Political Subject?
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O'Neill, John – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Discusses child welfare within the context of social contract theory, developed by Hume, Locke, and Rousseau, and covenant theory, namely, the insistence upon the intergenerational and communal bases of life chances. The two theories are compared and contrasted, and eight regulative principles of political covenant are proposed to benefit the…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children, Civil Liberties