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Budano, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the disciplinary knowledge and nature of expertise among political science experts studying American political science. A comparison group of students who had completed an introductory undergraduate course in American political science also participated in the study. Numerous research studies have found that civics and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Comparative Analysis, Political Science, Undergraduate Students
Hessberg, Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Youth civic engagement in the United States is at an all time low (Barber 1998; Galston, 2004, Owen, 2008). Youth are routinely characterized as civically apathetic, disengaged, and ignorant (Niemi & Junn, 1998; Putnam, 2000; Ravitch & Finn, 1987). Or, as Owen (2008) succinctly puts it, "young people in America have long anchored the…
Descriptors: Civics, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Student Participation