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Erickson, Joy Dangora; Thompson, Winston C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
This article emerges from a stream of scholarship demonstrating the inadequacy of broad arguments favouring 'neutrality' as an alternative to 'directive normative instruction' in the early childhood classroom. We advance a moral educational framing of the tension between neutrality and normativity in education: specifically, we argue that…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
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Estellés, Marta; Romero, Jesús; Amo, Francisco J. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2021
This article aims to explore two assumptions that have underpinned most research on teachers' perceptions of citizenship education (CE). These are, firstly, that teachers' perceptions of CE are relatively coherent, conscious and classifiable into citizenship models and, secondly, that these perceptions are strongly connected to their political…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Political Issues, Political Attitudes, Ideology
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Wilmers, Annika; Ylimaki, Rose M. – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article introduces the topic of the special issue, 'Public education at the crossroads', by pointing to some of the debates and controversies surrounding the topic of public education and by framing the theme, while explaining the context and some components of the educational systems of the countries under examination -- namely the USA and…
Descriptors: Public Education, Comparative Education, Educational Administration, Government Role
Hess, Frederick M., Ed.; Warren, Hannah, Ed. – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
The newly created Conservative Education Reform Network (CERN) at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) invited a group of conservative education thinkers to sketch policy proposals that they would like to see in a new education agenda. The only requirement was that they offer suggestions that would complement the traditional conservative…
Descriptors: Networks, Educational Change, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy
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Phillips, Louise G. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2010
This paper examines empirical data with regard to recent theorizing and conceptualizing of children's citizenship. It draws on a doctoral study where the author told social justice stories to one class of children aged five to six years to investigate the active citizenship that the stories set in motion. By imagining this action research study…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Citizenship, Action Research
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Baader, Meika Sophia – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2004
This contribution compares entries on Friedrich Froebel and the kindergarten in German and United States' histories of education from 1857 to 1933. In the American histories, Froebel appears as the great "hero" of education of the 19th century, whereas in the German histories, Pestalozzi is the "hero." This difference in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Politics of Education, Public Education