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Peer reviewedMolnar, Alex, Ed. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1997
This book presents a comprehensive and critical assessment of contemporary character education theory and practice from a variety of perspectives: historical, cultural, philosophical, psychological, empirical, political, and ethical. The essays in this book are divided into five sections intended to help develop a well-grounded understanding of…
Descriptors: Children, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Codes of Ethics
Download full textCivic Arts Review, 1992
The theme of this journal concerns democracy and citizenship education at universities. An editorial, "The Postmodern Blues" (Bernard Murchland), examines the negative citizen attitudes during the election campaign of Bill Clinton. The five civic education roundtable articles represent two position papers and three responses. The first position…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
Silver, Rosalind, Ed. – Media & Values, 1992
This issue of "Media and Values" helps students acquire and evaluate media information in order to be effective citizens. The individual articles include: (1) "In the Light of the Fires" (Elizabeth Thoman); (2) "From Milton to Media" (Clay Jenkinson); (3) "Brave New World" (Paul Du Bois; Frances Moore Lappe); (4) "Making Politics Work" (Jay…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Content Analysis, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking
Hutchinson, Frank – 1996
This paper argues the importance of not only understanding how "cultural editing" may limit our images and those of our children for creating non-violent futures, but also of the need for quality responses by teachers and teacher educators to such editing. Cultural editing is a term futurists use to describe processes both within formal and…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Bjerstedt, Ake – 1996
This pamphlet offers an overview of five larger reports in order to facilitate the process of locating contributions originating from five peace conferences between 1990-1994. The Peace Education Commission (PEC) arranged five conferences in Groningen (The Netherlands), Firenze (Italy), Kyoto (Japan), Budapest (Hungary) and Valletta (Malta). A…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Lund Univ. (Sweden). Malmo School of Education. – 1996
This pamphlet presents brief abstracts of selected English language reports and papers from the activities of the project group "Preparedness for Peace." For several years this project has carried out research and development work on peace education and related issues. The tasks have also included editorial work and publishing related to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Citizenship, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
