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Chavez-Reyes, Christina – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2012
"Critical social dialogue" (CSD) is the process of problem posing, facilitating personal stories through silence and multimodal assignments, and positioning them for students to re-examine and re-evaluate their understanding of systems of social difference, the beginnings of a multicultural and social justice intellectual frame for…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Problems, Social Differences
Cram, Emily Dianne – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2012
In 2009, Andre Andrade was convicted for the murder of Angie Zapata, an 18-year-old Latina transgender woman living in rural Colorado. This essay traces the way Angie's friends, family, and community countered the assertion of transphobia in the courtroom and larger public discussion by circulating self-portraits of Angie on t-shirts at community…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Adolescents, Females, Sexual Identity
Jones, Plummer Alston, Jr. – Library Quarterly, 2012
Jane Maud Campbell's career demonstrated her commitment and passion for library services with immigrants and minorities as one of the first advocates for multiculturalism in librarianship. She began her career working in the Newark Public Library and soon was employed as the librarian of the Passaic Public Library. She was the first woman employed…
Descriptors: African American Community, Cultural Pluralism, Government Libraries, Public Libraries
Gibson, Susan – Canadian Social Studies, 2012
The author has been teaching pre-service elementary social studies teachers for over 20 years and one thing that always astonishes her is how "fuzzy" they are about why social studies is taught as a subject in schools. When she asks this question in her undergraduate social studies methods classes, she usually gets specific…
Descriptors: Current Events, Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
Theobald, Maryanne; Kultti, Anne – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
In early years research, policy and education, a democratic perspective that positions children as participants and citizens is increasingly emphasised. These ideas take seriously listening to children's opinions and respecting children's influence over their everyday affairs. While much political and social investment has been made in the…
Descriptors: Children, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Social Capital
Waters, John K. – Campus Technology, 2012
Thanks to technology, the last 15 years have witnessed change on a scale unknown since the Industrial Revolution. Instant access to unlimited information--and the ability to share it with anyone, anywhere, anytime--has altered the world forever. On that, most educators agree. It's also where the consensus stops. Even as their students step into…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Skill Development, Skill Analysis, Information Literacy
Hill, Lori Diane; Baxen, Jean; Craig, Anne T.; Namakula, Halima – Review of Research in Education, 2012
Access to education is one of a range of social citizenship rights that are intended to afford members of a society an opportunity to share in a basic level of social, economic, and cultural well-being and to mitigate societal inequalities. The idea that every individual has a right to education is deeply entrenched in the international discourse…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Citizenship, Democracy
Lawrence, Janet; Ott, Molly; Bell, Alli – Research in Higher Education, 2012
Building on a theoretical framework that links characteristics of individuals and their work settings to organizational commitment (OC) and citizenship behavior, this study considers why faculty may be disengaging from institutional service. Analyses of survey data collected from a state system of higher education suggest that job characteristics,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Socialization, Citizenship, College Faculty
Rhamie, Jasmine; Bhopal, Kalwant; Bhatti, Ghazala – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2012
A national emphasis in Britain on community cohesion and citizenship has highlighted the need to explore understandings of difference within and between communities, particularly in school contexts. This paper reports on the first phase of a larger project exploring pupils' understandings and experiences of identity and diversity within secondary…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Student Diversity
Campbell, Kelly; Garcia, Donna M.; Granillo, Christina V.; Chavez, David V. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The authors examined the contributions of economic status (ES) and citizenship status to health differences between European Americans, Latino Americans, and noncitizen Latinos. The investigation was framed using social identity and comparison theories. Southern California residents (N = 2,164) were randomly selected to complete a telephone…
Descriptors: Economic Status, Citizenship, Cultural Differences, Physical Health
Haddad, Sergio – Adult Learning, 2012
This article analyzes the participation of civil society in the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education held in Belem do Para, Brazil, 1-4 December 2009. As a foundation, the discussion first illuminates the important role that civil society in general plays in democratic issues and the relation between the state and society followed by…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
Yi, Lin; Wang, Lili – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
Drawing upon fieldwork conducted with a group of dislocated Tibetan undergraduate students of the "neidi ban" program in a Han-predominated university, this paper examines the ways in which these students make sense of their worlds. To achieve this, they have actively and engagingly organized a series of symbolically meaningful…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Background, Coping
Pesek, Jessamay T. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2014
This study uses a comparative case study design to examine youth (ages 13-20) opinions toward compulsory voting across five democratic countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Youth responses toward compulsory voting demonstrate how youth come to learn about citizen rights and responsibilities with varied understandings…
Descriptors: Voting, Compliance (Legal), Case Studies, Democratic Values
Fischer, Sebastian; Fischer, Florian; Kleinschmidt, Malte; Lange, Dirk – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
The investigation is about which ideas ninth form students at grammar schools and secondary modern schools have about globalisation. It shall be investigated if the perception of and judgement on globalisation-connected contexts happens along social structure-specific patterns. At first, by way of a questionnaire, the field of ideas is supposed to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Sakschewski, Mark; Eggert, Sabina; Schneider, Susanne; Bögeholz, Susanne – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
The concept of energy is one key component of science education curricula worldwide. While it is still being taught in many science classrooms from a mainly conceptual knowledge perspective, the need to frame the concept of energy as a socioscientific issue and implement it in the context of citizenship education and education for sustainable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Energy, Energy Education