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Guns, Schools, and Democracy: Adolescents Imagining Social Futures through Speculative Civic Literacies
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
This article analyzes how guns emerged as both urgent topics of dialogue and common features of everyday life for 228 students and their teachers in six communities across the United States who participated in the Digital Democratic Dialogue (3D) Project, a year long social design-based experiment aimed at foregrounding youth voice and fostering…
Descriptors: Weapons, Civics, Citizenship Education, Violence
"I Hesitate but I Do Have Hope": Youth Speculative Civic Literacies for Troubled Times
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this essay, Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia explore how young people from six demographically distinct communities across the United States understand the social and political issues affecting their lives, engage in storytelling and dialogue across differences, and collaboratively imagine humanizing and hopeful civic futures. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Political Issues, Story Telling, Dialogs (Language)
Examining Performance and Attitudes of TESOL Preservice Teachers and Their English Learners in a Service-Learning Project
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Macknish, Cynthia; Tomaš, Zuzana; Vojtkuláková, Margita – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2018
Service-learning has increasingly been implemented to enhance teacher education coursework in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Service-learning engages preservice teachers in activities or projects that benefit a particular community of stakeholders with ties to English as an additional language learning while…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Higher Education Exchange, 2012
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Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2012
"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, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Graduate Students
Fountain of Knowledge: IR Collaboration for Effective Change. [Proceedings of the] Annual NEAIR Conference (37th, Saratoga Springs, New York, November 13-16, 2010)
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Frederick, Beth, Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
The NEAIR 2010 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Saratoga Springs, New York conference. Papers in this document include: (1) Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Institutional Research: A Model for the Successful Assessment of Students' College Experience (Michael N. Christakis and Joel D. Bloom); (2) Direct…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Student Personnel Services, Cooperation, College Students
Teaching Vocational and Citizenship Education in Social Studies. Final Report.
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Howell, Kay M. – 1967
A pilot project was conducted to determine if there was evidence to support an experimental program for comparison with the current, conventional programs of 9th grade social studies in the East Lansing, Michigan schools. The experimental program was one in which students were introduced into the world of work and spheres of the citizen within the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Career Development, Career Guidance