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Knowles, Ryan T. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2018
This quantitative study uses survey data to test connections between 735 teachers' civic education ideology (CivID) and their self-reported instructional practices. Analysis demonstrates teachers' beliefs in relation to conservative, liberal, and critical civic education ideology as well as preference for instructional strategies, such as…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Teacher Attitudes, Ideology
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Levesque-Bristol, Chantal; Knapp, Timothy D.; Fisher, Bradley J. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2010
Service-learning is a teaching strategy that offers students opportunities to learn both in the classroom and in the wider world. This pedagogical tool provides students with chances to directly interact with local agencies and effect change in the community. Thus, service-learning holds the potential to broaden and significantly enhance the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Environment, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Service Learning
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Nebel, Michelle; Jamison, Barbara; Bennett, Linda – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2009
Internet tools associated with Web 2.0 such as wikis, blogs, and video podcasts are increasingly available in elementary classrooms. ("Web 2.0" is a vaguely defined, folk-tech term that means, roughly, the Internet and all software and devices, constantly improving, that strive to exploit it in creative and useful ways.) Today,…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Citizenship, Prior Learning
Boykin, James C. Ed. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
Contained herein are results and report of study on the current educational topics of: (1) Illiteracy in the United states and in Europe; (2) Industrial Supervisors in Georgia; (3) the New Phases of Education in Buffalo, N.Y; (4) Juvenile labor Bureaus and Vocational Guidance in Great Britain; and (5) a review of the Educational Museum of the St.…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Public Schools, Museums, Foreign Countries
Aulbur, Millie; Wax, Jack – 1992
This Missouri law-related education (LRE) guidebook for judges visiting classrooms and class visits to courtrooms is premised upon the belief that partnerships between judges and teachers will foster civic competence in students, help students avoid legal problems, enhance higher level skills such as analytical thinking, and increase students'…
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Citizenship Education, Civics, Court Judges