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Ezhov, Sergey G.; Komarova, Nataliya M.; Khairullina, Elmira R.; Rapatskaia, Liudmila, A.; Miftakhov, Radik R.; Khusainova, Liana R. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The research urgency is caused by the increase of social responsibility of universities for improvement of the quality of higher education and development of students' socio-professional values. In terms of the conflicting realities of modern society the youth policy at the University is the most important tool to form students' commitment to…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Foreign Countries, Self Actualization, Student Government
Brasof, Marc; Spector, Anne – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Building democracies in K-8 schools is a promising approach to increasing young people and educators' civic knowledge, skills and dispositions. The Rendell Center for Civics and Civics Engagement leveraged strategies and concepts from the fields of civic education, student voice, and distributed leadership to build a youth-adult school governance…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Teaching Methods
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Eberle, Julia; Stegmann, Karsten; Fischer, Frank – Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
We argue that social network analysis is a useful methodology to study and to extend scholarly knowledge on learning through legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice. We first review work on legitimate peripheral participation and show that research on this topic currently focuses on the adoption of practices. Then we…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Communities of Practice, Futures (of Society)
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Fleming, Domnall – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
In positioning student voice within the Irish education policy discourse it is imperative that this emergent and complex concept is explored and theorized in the context of its definition and motivation. Student voice can then be positioned and critiqued as it emerged within Irish education policy primarily following Ireland's ratification of the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Student Attitudes, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Reichert, Frank; Print, Murray – Educational Review, 2018
Building active and informed citizens is a major part of civics and citizenship education in order to enhance and sustain democracies. Civic learning and civic action opportunities within school contexts are commonly claimed to promote an active and informed citizenry. In the present research, we examine the meaning of formal civics education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizen Participation, Student Participation
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Madden, Therese M. – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2015
This article examines the importance of co-curricular activities for student success, reviews literature about narrative identity as it relates to adult students, and describes an ePortfolio project that captures contributions that nontraditional students bring to the classroom. The implications reinforce curriculum design practices and explore…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials), Adult Students, Adult Learning
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Civera Cerecedo, Alicia – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
On 26 and 27 September 2014, 43 students from the "Profesor Isidro Burgos" Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico, disappeared, and six people died. In this article, I analyse the event as the result of long-term historical processes, from the perspective of the social mobilisation that caused the students' disappearance on…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Violence, Educational History, News Reporting
Wall, James P., IV. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this mixed methods study is to examine the effects of student council involvement on academic performance and on school climate and culture. The quantitative research examines the impact between middle and high school students' involvement in student council and their grade point average. In addition, the quantitative research…
Descriptors: Student Government, Middle School Students, High School Students, Suburban Schools
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Mnubi, Godfrey Magoti – Journal of Learning for Development, 2017
This paper analyses whether the gender-sensitive and democratically elected student councils helped in strengthening school leadership and providing a platform for increased awareness and advocacy for male and female students to address their needs and rights in primary and secondary schools in Tanzania. The data were collected through qualitative…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Government, Foreign Countries, Democracy
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Hunt, Frances – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2014
Each secondary school in South Africa is legally obliged to establish a representative council of learners, a democratically elected, learner-only council. This article looks at how the representative councils of learners are realised in practice in four secondary schools. Three research questions focus on the practice of representative councils…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Secondary School Students, Citizen Participation
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Cross, Beth; Hulme, Moira; McKinney, Stephen – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This article critically examines pupil councils as a means of developing pupils' citizenship participation. It draws on findings across two research projects. The first study is a mixed method study commissioned by Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) that reviews the range of participatory activities in Scottish schools and their contribution to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Curriculum
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Claes, Ellen; Hooghe, Marc – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
Citizenship education has evolved substantially in recent decades, with a rapid proliferation of education forms and approaches. The currently available evaluation studies, however, do not allow us to determine what kind of approach can be considered as a best practice for schools and education systems. In this article, we rely on the results of a…
Descriptors: Political Science, Politics, Trust (Psychology), Educational Environment
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Bloomdahl, Susana Contreras; Navan, Joy – Journal of College Student Development, 2013
This article depicts the intervention strategy of two faculty members on a dysfunctional student council in a residential college setting. The council demonstrated poor collaboration and productivity, which indicated signs of distrust. The group intervention helped to expose the students' lack of organization and need to learn more about each…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Intervention, Cooperation, Student Leadership
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Carbonell, Katerina Bohle; Dailey-Hebert, Amber; Gijselaers, Wim – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
Bottom-up managed change processes offer the advantage to use the creative power of faculty to design and implement blended learning programs. This article proposes four factors as crucial elements for a successful bottom-up change process: the macro and micro contexts, the project leader and the project members. Interviews were conducted with 5…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Blended Learning, Student Government
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Friend, Nina – Schools: Studies in Education, 2012
At the end of the 2011-12 version of the project course Schools Across Borders, Schools Across Time (SABSAT), a high school senior wrote a series of letters reflecting on the experience of participating in an unusual course with an unusual outcome. In the letters, the student wanted to evoke what was personal and what was critical--to herself, her…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, High Schools, Workshops, Progressive Education
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