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Direct linkJeremiah Clabough; John H. Bickford – Social Studies, 2025
In this article, we utilize resources mainly provided by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate along with other primary and secondary sources to discuss a unit plan for students to research voting rights issues in modern American society. First, a brief historical overview of voting rights issues in the United States is…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Voting, Middle School Students, Legislators
Deimel, Daniel; Hoskins, Bryony; Abs, Hermann J. – Educational Psychology, 2020
Both direct and indirect influences have been assumed to impact the transmission of political orientations within families. A lower socioeconomic status is related to lower intended political participation of adolescents. Within this context, schools play a crucial role in political socialisation, as citizenship education is assumed to either…
Descriptors: School Role, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Socialization
Lavine, Peter – Social Education, 2014
Political participation is seriously unequal. For example, young adults who finish college vote at almost three times the rate of contemporaries who have dropped out of high school. That gap translates into disparities by race and class. Effective civic education can reduce such inequality and make our democracy more representative. Teaching…
Descriptors: Voting, Teaching Methods, Citizen Participation, Civics
