Publication Date
| In 2026 | 0 |
| Since 2025 | 1 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 10 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 23 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 25 |
Descriptor
| Citizen Participation | 26 |
| Elementary School Students | 14 |
| Kindergarten | 12 |
| Social Studies | 10 |
| Grade 3 | 8 |
| Citizenship Education | 7 |
| Foreign Countries | 7 |
| Teaching Methods | 7 |
| Grade 2 | 6 |
| Self Concept | 5 |
| Educational Policy | 4 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 22 |
| Reports - Research | 14 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 12 |
| Books | 1 |
| Collected Works - General | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Teachers | 1 |
Location
| New Zealand | 3 |
| California | 2 |
| Kentucky | 2 |
| China | 1 |
| Europe | 1 |
| Illinois | 1 |
| Indiana | 1 |
| New York | 1 |
| New York (New York) | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 |
| Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Dynamic Indicators of Basic… | 1 |
| Social Skills Rating System | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkKahuroa, Raella; Lees, Jacqui; Johns, Tina; Ng, Olivia; Abeyratne, Nilma – Early Childhood Folio, 2023
Critical pedagogy has the potential to create transformation experiences within early childhood settings, as educators open up children's worlds to explore fairness, equity, and democratic participation across issues of interest and relevance to young children. Using a critical inquiry framework, informed by the work of Paulo Freire, teachers from…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Justice
Taylor Marsho; Ashtyn Riley; Deidra Rudd; Morgan Schmidt; Sunah Chung; Sarah E. Montgomery – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2024
Research in early childhood and elementary social studies education has illuminated how teachers can use children's literature to explore issues of injustice, elevate hidden histories, and affirm students' identities. Integrating children's literature into social studies instruction not only supports literacy education aims but also promotes…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Justice, Art, Childrens Literature
Julie L Pennington; Kathryn M Obenchain; Hannah Carter; Melissa Bedford – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2024
Early purposes of education in the United States concentrated on preparing young citizens to understand democratic principles in order to participate in their democratic communities. Today elementary instruction has contracted in response to years of high stakes accountability measures. Social studies has not been a focus of federal accountability…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Citizen Participation, Democratic Values, Social Studies
Zehra Gülseven; Kayla Puente; Nestor Tulagan; Nicole Zarrett; Sandra D. Simpkins; Deborah Lowe Vandell – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Guided by the ecological model of civic development, this study examined the extent to which the growth in children's self-control during middle childhood predicted their civic engagement at age 26 directly and indirectly via their prosociality at age 15. We used data from 1,042 children (50% female, 77% White) in the NICHD Study of Early Child…
Descriptors: Self Control, Prosocial Behavior, Prediction, Volunteers
Ashley Rogers Berner – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "Educational Pluralism and Democracy," education policy expert Ashley Rogers Berner envisions a K-12 education system that serves both the individual and the common good. Calling for education reform that will enable US public schools to fulfill the longstanding promise of American education, Berner proposes a radical reimagining of…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Policy, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Peng Xu; Jenny Ritchie – Early Childhood Folio, 2024
Recognising children as active and competent citizens holds promise for early childhood research and pedagogies worldwide. Researchers in China have not previously explored young children's citizenship in detail. The project that is the focus of this article sought to address this research gap. Moss' critical approach and Chen's "Asia as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role
Erin V. Piedmont; Alesia Mickle Moldavan – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2025
Providing opportunities for elementary students to engage with enduring social issues, such as houselessness, is essential in preparing informed, engaged, and social justice-oriented citizens. This article draws from the following standards: (1) C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards that center inquiry; (2) Learning for Justice's Social…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Student Empowerment, Emergency Shelters, Homeless People
Kiesa, Abby; Bueso, Leah; Hodgin, Erica; Kahne, Joe – Social Education, 2022
This article shares lessons from committed and inspirational educators from across the country with whom the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) worked in 2020. Their experiences reinforce that nonpartisan teaching about democracy is possible (i.e., not teaching who to vote for, but rather how the system…
Descriptors: Elections, Teaching Methods, Democracy, Political Attitudes
Download full textJulia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Eden, Max – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
In order to have a public education system that caters to the cultural, policy, and pedagogical preferences of communities, more citizens need to participate in local school board elections. This report discusses why school board elections should be moved on cycle (i.e., held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even…
Descriptors: Elections, Boards of Education, Political Attitudes, Voting
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience or with school employment. This course, Education…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Research, Secondary Education, Social Studies
Haight, Jesse A.; Boryenace, Vanessa C. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2019
A troubling observation is that--outside of Black History Month in February and Women's History Month in March, during which students are acquiring some knowledge about noteworthy women and minorities--teachers in every grade level often teach about the same figures rather than expanding their lessons to include less-conventional or…
Descriptors: Females, Biographies, Kindergarten, African American History
Hammerschmidt, Melinda; Borneman, Dea – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2018
The first grade unit described here, Inspiring Americans, is a collaborative project between the authors, a first-grade classroom teacher and a librarian. The unit supports the four dimensions of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework, which guides the way students explore, interact, and learn about their world. The C3 Framework…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Grade 1, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Social Studies
Hauver, Jennifer – Social Education, 2017
Formal civic education that seeks to develop young people's appreciation and competence for active participation in their communities is critically important, and we should continue to advocate for its inclusion. Learning to live together--in community with diverse others--has always required far more than formal civic education curriculum has…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Civics, Informal Education
Morris, Ronald V. – Social Studies, 2019
Second grade students learn about philanthropy by creating projects where they work through an inquiry process. Each student works with a group to create community-based projects that support existing local non-profits to enrich the quality of life in an area. Student action is visible through an authentic assessment event that allows students to…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Social Studies, Learner Engagement
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2
