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Virta, Arja; Virta, Marjaana – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
Interest in children's voice in society has been increasing gradually. This implies both the creation of new channels for participation, and also in the intensification of the research on children's citizenship. This article asks what ideas twelve-year-old children have about using power and about their own opportunities of having influence in…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Power Structure, Student Role, Questionnaires
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Contreras León, Janeth Juliana; Chapetón Castro, Claudia Marcela – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
This study investigates the impact of implementing collaborative learning from a social and dialogical perspective on seventh graders' interaction in an English as a foreign language classroom at a public school in Bogotá, Colombia. Thirty students participated in this action research where field notes, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Parmenter, Lynne – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2011
This article critically examines the creation of the dominant academic discourse of global citizenship education, highlights gaps of thinking in the current discourse based on empirical research, and suggests some of the areas of translation/mediation/engagement that exist or need to exist in order to further research in the area. It uses a…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Political Issues
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Llewellyn, Kristina R.; Cook, Sharon Anne; Molina, Alison – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
This study examines the knowledge and skills that characterize civic learning for young people. Building on a literature review, it reports an exploratory case study with students and teachers in four secondary schools in the Ottawa, Canada region. The perspectives of researchers co-operating with educators and students against a backdrop of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Citizenship Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Preuss, Cara; Morway, Carolyn – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
This paper explores university student access to and use of technology in Azerbaijan in the context of hegemony in computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Due to perceptions of a lack of technology access in the university context, the instructors in this study did not initially pursue a CALL agenda. Based on data sources that included a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Internet, Computer Assisted Instruction
Forest, Laverne Bruce – 1970
This study described and analyzed a rural community during change to determine possible "blocks" and/or "catalysts" in implementing 29 recommendations by the University of Wisconsin Department of Landscape Architecture. Elements and processes which were most highly related to attitudes toward these changes were represented by leaders' community…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Community Leaders, Correlation