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Victoria D. Vogelgesang – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
This study aims to answer the following research question: How is participation in selected high impact practices (HIPs) that promote social capital associated with community college students' positive civic learning outcomes (CLOs) such as communication and listening, diversity, and consensus-building? This study analyzed responses to the 2019…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Social Capital, Civics, Learner Engagement
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Lin, Alex R. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2021
With nationwide concerns about the declines in youth voting turnout across the United States, increased attention has focused on schools to promote "civic education," a broad curricular approach aimed at facilitating students' development of key civic knowledge, skills, and behaviors. However, less is known about how civic education…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Religious Education, Citizenship Education, Christianity
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Campbell, David E. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2019
Historically there has been a relative dearth of social science research into civic education--even in political science, a discipline that had civic education as one of its founding objectives. This is partly due to the mistaken impression that civics instruction has no effect on civic and political participation, a conclusion that was once…
Descriptors: Civics, Social Science Research, Educational Research, Citizen Participation
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Bennion, Elizabeth A.; Laughlin, Xander E. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
The "Journal of Political Science Education (JPSE)" provides over a decade of research on political science pedagogy, featuring empirical research documenting best practices in the field. This article provides an overview of "JPSE"-published research on the topics of civic education and engagement. It summarizes the number and…
Descriptors: Political Science, Civics, Best Practices, Educational Research
Cipolle, Susan – Multicultural Education, 2004
Service-learning is a wide-spread educational strategy in K-16 education. Currently 64% of all public schools and 83% of public high schools have community service. Researchers have proclaimed the many benefits of service learning in terms of student empowerment, but does it have the power to create a counter-hegemony that provides an alternative…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Student Empowerment, Multicultural Education, Citizenship Education
Couto, Richard A. – 1994
Experiential education, service learning in particular, offers one pedagogy for teaching democracy. This paper presents a rationale for teaching democracy through service learning and provides general and specific guidelines for accomplishing the goal. Models of service learning are described that teachers can incorporate into classroom…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Civics, Community Involvement