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White, Morgan – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2013
The purpose of the university should be grounded in the concept of citizenship rather than the promise of increased future earnings and research consultancy work. However, this conception of citizenship should be republican rather than liberal. British higher education institutions have suffered at the hands of mechanisms intended to promote…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Role, Role of Education, Citizenship Education
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Boni, Alejandra; Torrejón, Estela López; Barahona, Rodrigo – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2013
This article intends to describe a collaborative experience between a non-government development organization (NGDO) and a university in the area of development education. The experience has included the design, following an action research methodology, of a system of quality criteria for experiences promoted by the Network of Educators for Global…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, Universities, Institutional Cooperation, Action Research
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2013
In 2011, member states of the Innovation Lab Network (ILN or Network), facilitated by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), agreed to work together under the shared belief that their states face a great opportunity to transform their education systems to new designs that prepare all students for postsecondary learning, work, and…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Lynn, Elizabeth; Levine, Peter – Kettering Foundation, 2013
In 1965, President Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, giving birth to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. The act declared, "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts…
Descriptors: Humanities, Public Agencies, Democracy, Humanities Instruction
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Rosen, Jenny Karin; Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
The study presented in this paper focuses upon conceptualisations of language and identity in the institutionalised arena that emerged in the post-Second World War period with the specific intention of teaching Swedish to adult immigrants in the nation-state of Sweden. Our analysis focuses upon the development of the educational programme…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, War, Educational Change
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Westberg Brostrom, Anna – Child & Youth Services, 2013
The aim of this article is to analyze the Swedish scout program. Socialization is used as a theoretical tool in the analysis. The method is inspired by critical discourse analysis. What are children and young people being prepared for, how is it accomplished, and by whom? The findings reveal two discourses: doing things as an investment for the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Children, Youth
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Ashley, Seth; Maksl, Adam; Craft, Stephanie – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2013
Using a framework previously applied to other areas of media literacy, this study developed and assessed a measurement scale focused specifically on critical news media literacy. Our scale appears to successfully measure news media literacy as we have conceptualized it based on previous research, demonstrated through assessments of content,…
Descriptors: News Media, Role, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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Lickona, Thomas – Journal of Character Education, 2014
In this article, Thomas Lickona, director of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility) and professor emeritus, School of Education, at the State University of New York at Cortland, provides his reflections on The "Coming Apart of America's Civic Culture" (Charles Murray), and "The Promise and Peril of Coming of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Faculty, Essays, Individual Characteristics
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Brett, Peter; Thomas, Damon – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
This paper explores persuasive writing and what more might be done to help equip young people with the written literacy tools to be effective participants in civic activism. Firstly, we argue from an Australian (and Tasmanian) context that there may be merit in teachers and students re-visiting some of the advice from classical rhetoric around the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Advocacy, Literacy
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Tayler, Marilyn R. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2014
The author demonstrates that entry-level students can achieve a more comprehensive understanding of complex problems through an explicitly interdisciplinary approach than through a merely multidisciplinary approach, using the process described in Repko's (2014) "Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies." Repko takes the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Case Studies, Arabs, Foreign Countries
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Papaspiliou, Konstantina; Skanavis, Constantina; Giannoulis, Christos – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
Forest fires, as all natural disasters, have the potential to seriously affect both the environment and the social structure of a local community. Unlike some of the natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornados and tsunamis which are unpredictable, the phenomenon of forest fires could be easily predicted and controlled, since the causes are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecology, Civics, Natural Disasters
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Escorza, Eloisa Heredia; Escorza, Yolanda Heredia; Medina-Aguilar, Graciela; Cordero-Diaz, Mary Ana; Martinez, Roman Martinez; Leon, Sergio Alberto Lopez – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
This study analyzed the narratives of a group of college students in so-called "Citizen Experience Reports" (REC). These reports provide an account of experiences carried out by students during their social service. The objective was to analyze these narratives and identify the level of development of related skills concerning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives
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Gordon, Dennis R. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2014
This paper offers a view from the classroom and departmental chair's office, using the teaching of introductory "International Relations" and some basic theoretical foundations of the field, "Realism," "Cosmopolitanism," and "Constructivism," to explore how study abroad can balance calls to educate for…
Descriptors: International Relations, Integrated Curriculum, Constructivism (Learning), Introductory Courses
Fournier-Sylvester, Nicole – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
This survey of 370 recent high school graduates reveals that history and citizenship courses in Quebec focus on cultural and religious viewpoints, favour a transmission approach to learning, and fail to connect the political process to students' concerns and interests. Without a clear conception of citizenship as a reference point, this curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, High School Graduates, Graduate Surveys
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Waly, Salma G. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to explore how civic organizations in Egypt after the revolution prepare students to be active citizens with a solid understanding of what their roles and duties are in an emergent democratic system. Through examining the curriculum of the summer school of one of the civic organizations in Cairo, I first look at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Social Change, Democracy
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