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Yenchun Wu; Marco Fabio Benaglia – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
For over two decades now, the application of Citizen Science to Education has been evolving, and fundamental topics, such as the drivers of motivation to participate in Citizen Science projects, are still under discussion. Some recent developments, though, like the use of Artificial Intelligence to support data collection and validation, seem to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science Education, Educational Development
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Karatekin, Kadir – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
This research has been handled for two purposes: First, determining the level of ecological citizenship of teachers; secondly, the level of curiosity about the environment, the frequency of participation in environmental activities, investigating the relationship between the dimensions of Ecological Citizenship Scale (ECS). In line with this aim,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Civil Rights, Justice, Conservation (Environment)
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Schwartz-Tayri, Talia M.; Malka, Menny; Moshe-Grodofsky, Merav; Gilbert, Neil – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
Policy advocacy is a professional competency in the Council of Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Therefore, preparing social work students to engage in political arenas is an integral part of social work education. This study presents an evaluation of the policy advocacy course using a pre/posttest…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Advocacy, Accreditation (Institutions), Social Work
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Jicha, Karl A.; Thompson, Gretchen H.; Fulkerson, Gregory M.; May, Jonathan E. – Rural Sociology, 2011
This article presents the findings of a case study examining the relationship between social capital and individual participation in collective action on a Caribbean island recovering from devastation inflicted by Hurricanes Ivan and Emily. Using data drawn from 114 residential surveys on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, over the summer of 2006,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Citizen Participation, Case Studies
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Gaziel, Haim H. – Planning and Changing, 1984
Communities in Israel share educational finance and planning with the national government. Data from approximately 300 schools were analyzed to investigate the relationships between educational expenditures and the following environmental and political variables: (1) community socioeconomic status, size, and education system size; and (2) citizen…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Size, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education