Situated in Minnesota counties representing the rapidly diversifying urban-rural continuum, this study seeks to understand how high school age youth experience belonging, or not, in these changing environments and develop civic engagement through an arts-based participatory educational program. We argue that arts-based and participatory approaches…

Aligned with the 2021 AERA conference theme, which asks us as citizen-scholars to use educational research to address complex social and educational problems, the objective of this study is to provide the first nationally-representative, empirical evidence on the relationships among literacy, literacy skill use, and these information-seeking…

Recent widespread implementation of service-learning initiatives reflects increased commitment to civic engagement and service in higher education. Data regarding students' diverse orientations to service could be a powerful tool to inform thoughtful development of differentiated service-learning opportunities, contributing to better alignment and…

This paper examines the "democratization process" in Turkey and its ramifications on the Turkish education system. By using a Gramscian theoretical framework, this research evaluates the latest reform (4+4+4) in the Turkish formal education system in the wider context of democratization and state transformation. The study is based on…

This study presents a unique educational partnership combining the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools Program with a concentrated iteration of civic education via iEngage Action Civics in order to provide an opportunity for a localized curriculum that featured specificity to the urban community demographic. Participants were asked to…

This is considered the first study of how American Islamic secondary schools in various parts of the United States seek to develop positive character and civic engagement in their students. This study is relevant because of much-publicized tensions over the situation of Muslim minorities. In this context, the findings of the study have been highly…

This goal of this study was to develop a measure that captures the three dimensions of youth purpose proposed by Damon, Menon, and Cotton-Bronk (2003). We tested a theoretical model that links youth purpose (comprised of intention, engagement, and prosocial reasoning) with achievement motivation, agency, and civic engagement for a sample of high…

The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to problematize consensus as a value for democratic deliberation while siting the literature on democratic deliberation, particularly feminist critiques, and (2) to suggest guiding principles for deliberation without consensus using one case study as a point of reference. The case is a study of community…

Despite the increasing attention to afterschool science programs, little is known about the conditions under which children likely engage in meaningful scientific practices, such as argumentation and scientific explanation in those settings. This analysis draws on X hours of video data collected of elementary-aged children (n = 4) during a 14-day…

This study explores the critical consciousness of preservice Social Studies teachers and how their pedagogical content knowledge affects their ability to disrupt dominant discourses when teaching economic concepts.

Members of the National Louis University Civic Engagement Team developed research and evaluation tools for scholarly analysis of data on community engaged research and service-learning at our university then piloted them with students, faculty, and community partners. This study results from the pilot. We examined perspectives on service-learning…

One hundred and sixteen doctoral students and graduates of a doctoral program in education (N=116) on the Mexico border were asked to complete a survey developed by the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID). Forty seven percent of those surveyed responded (n=50). According to the CID developers, Walker, Golde, Jones, Bueschel and Hutchings,…

Community change approaches have increasingly involved participatory practices in which community members directly impacted by an issue participate in implementing change efforts. However, community participation as a practice and approach does not always include youth participation. Within the field of youth organizing, young people are…

This paper presents findings from analysis of two learning sites, a classroom and a community-based youth organizing group for Latino adolescents where adult "educators" attempted to promote both critical and civic development for the participating learners. By examining the two unique learning spaces with similar youth development…

Student participation in real-world problems promotes "a sense of their own agency andcollective capacity to alter their neighbourhoods or communities for the better" (Smith, 2007).This paper describes student engagement in a two-week summer workshop conducted in June2016, where they used geospatial technologies and community mapping to…