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Direct linkBeth C. Rubin – Teachers College Press, 2025
Youth participatory action research can turn your classroom into a site of meaningful, relevant civic learning, in which young people gain a sense of civic empowerment as they discuss, investigate, analyze, and speak with authority on issues that directly affect them and their communities. Through stories, examples, and the reflections of youth…
Descriptors: Youth, Participatory Research, Action Research, Citizenship Education
Peer reviewedSigal Ozery Roitberg – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
Contemporary literature reveals that many educators, especially those in elementary schools and in conflict-effected societies, are reluctant to engage in the teaching of current public issues, even more so social controversies. However, this qualitative study examined the successful experience and the perspectives of educators from two elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Current Events
Alison Body; Emily Lau; Jack Cunliffe; Lindsey Cameron – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Encouraging children to become 'good citizens' who positively contribute towards society through charitable and philanthropic action as part of their civic participation has become a core focus of policy and practice. Yet the opportunities afforded to children for active civic learning within primary education remain under-researched. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Elementary Education, Civics
Ozge Karakus-Ozdemirci; Hanife Akar – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
There is an increasing nationalism endemic globally that needs profound consideration in education research. Through this paper, we aim to landscape discourses in citizenship education within the context of nationalism and diversity in Türkiye as a developing country subjected to dramatic in-migration of displaced people within a decade, let alone…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Nationalism, Developing Nations
Casmana, Asep Rudi; Dewantara, Jagad Aditya; Timoera, Dwi Afrimetty; Kusmawati, Adistyana Pitaloka; Syafrudin, Iqbal – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
In a context in which academics and policymakers across the globe emphasise the importance of educators acting to encourage citizens to possess high social concern for their environment, this article reports and discusses qualitative research that explores perceptions and actions from within Indonesia. The purpose of the research was to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Education, Citizenship Education, Environmental Education
Download full textRina Bousalis – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2025
To address the need for social studies methods course instructors to help preservice teachers make learning and teaching citizenship education relevant, a qualitative case study that took on a content and thematic data analysis approach involving supplementing the curriculum with an oral history inquiry-based project was conducted on 38 elementary…
Descriptors: Oral History, Citizenship Education, Preservice Teachers, Social Studies
Beth Cross – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Critique of citizenship education has suggested citizenship should be reconceived, not as a status, but as something that people continuously do: citizenship as practice. This article draws on a two-year ethnographic study of citizenship practices in a Scottish primary school examining how citizenship curriculum was distributed across children's…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cooperative Learning, Decision Making, Elementary School Students
Kathryn Wheeler – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
This paper explores how children (aged 7-11) in the UK are educated about sustainability and climate change, through exploring a sample of 155 learning resources from public, private and third sector organisations. Using qualitative content analysis, key codes captured (a) how sustainability was represented; (b) how responsibilities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Children
Jaturapat Shaisombat; Montree Wongsaphan – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2025
This research aimed to develop a curriculum to enhance active citizenship competencies for primary 6 students at Mahasarakham town municipal schools. The target group comprised 1) 59 key informants provided crucial data, selected using a purposive sampling method. 2) 5 curriculum development experts, selected using a purposive sampling method. And…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Citizenship Education
Maribel Santoyo; César Augusto Rossatto – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This thought piece explored the scholarship that expands and disrupts ideas of citizenship. In U.S. civic education classrooms, citizenship is viewed through the lens of a legal model that does not accurately reflect mixed-status classrooms in U.S.-Mexico border schools. We argue for a cathartic pedagogy that normalizes the discussion of…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools
Marcia Linn; Korah Wiley; Megan Bang, Contributor; Douglas B. Clark, Contributor; Sarah W. Freedman, Contributor; Libby Gerard, Contributor; Angela Hardy, Contributor; Daniel Morales-Doyle, Contributor; Thomas M. Philip, Contributor; Linda Schmalbeck, Contributor; Sepehr Vakil, Contributor; Michelle Wilkerson, Contributor – National Academy of Education, 2024
Motivation to learn increases when science courses connect curricular topics to challenges facing students' communities. Students care about their communities and the health of the planet. Instruction that connects science ideas and practices to students' lives and communities creates a pathway for civic engagement. Integrating science ideas that…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education
Amy Smail – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
Redefining Ghanaian citizenship has been the impetus for the new 2019 educational reform. For President Akufo-Addo, fostering a more located historic expression of citizenship in learners is central for renewing pride and innovation to move Ghana out of poverty. Teachers are seen as central to this change. Based on 26 interviews, this qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Decolonization
Rosa, Milton; Orey, Daniel Clark; de Sousa Mesquita, Ana Paula Santos – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Citizenship education is historically linked with political developments that have forced governments to think deeper about nationality, power, identity, and the process of decolonization since large sectors of the population are denied and even excluded from the development of their citizenship. Currently, there is a need to provide mechanisms…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Development, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Nicollette Frank; Morgan P. Tate – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2024
In their work with young learners, the authors found that "We Are Water Protectors," written by Carole Lindstrom, of the Anishinabe/ Métis and Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe Indians, and illustrated by Michaela Goade, of Tlingit descent, was a powerful entry point for recognizing the ways in which Indigenous communities continue to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Civics, Elementary Education
Chrystal S. Johnson; Chenchen Lu; Godwin Gyimah; Razak Kwame Dwomoh – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
The proposed paper utilizes teacher and student data from the 2014 U.S. National Assessment for Education Progress 8th grade Civics test (NAEP-Civics8) to explore the relationship between teacher pedagogical practices and other factors (i.e., teacher credentials, teacher professional characteristics, individual traits, and teachers' education…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Grade 8, Civics, Educational Practices
