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Publication Date: 2012-Oct
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Diverse Schools in a Democratic Society: New Ways of Understanding How School Demographics Affect Civic and Political Learning
Jacobsen, Rebecca; Frankenberg, Erica; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell
American Educational Research Journal, v49 n5 p812-843 Oct 2012
The 2010 Census revealed the extent to which today's metropolitan areas are growing increasingly diverse. At the forefront of this change are schools. Yet, research on school context continues to rely upon a traditional, cross-sectional bifurcation that designates schools as either diverse or not. This classification may be especially inaccurate for some educational outcomes such as whether schools are cultivating effective citizenship for a diverse democracy. Because of changing demographics, this paper considers whether a new framework for conceptualizing school racial composition, including the number and identity of specific racial groups and the stability of those groups, can determine more precisely the ways in which school diversity impacts students' citizenship learning. (Contains 3 notes and 6 tables.)
Descriptors: School Demography, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Racial Composition, Social Psychology, Social Change, Social Characteristics, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation, High Schools, Cultural Context, Social Environment, Urban Education, Ethnic Diversity, School Role, Classification, Student Surveys, Predictor Variables, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Educational Opportunities, Skill Development, Educational Practices, Context Effect
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Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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