Fostering Students' Civic Skills: Education for Sustainable Democracy

Ata, Atakan

doi:10.20429/ger.2019.160107

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“…Participatory civic skills are comprised of voting, following politics, expressing opinions, advocating for a cause, engaging in public events, and working collaboratively on community issues (Patrick, 2003;Kirlin, 2005). SEL competencies, such as critical thinking, communication, and collaboration, are integral to the development of civic skills (Ata, 2019;Owen and Irion-Groth, 2020).…”

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Toward an Accessible Civics Curriculum: Adapting We the People for High-Need Students

Owen

Phillips

2023

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The James Madison Legacy Project Extension (JMLPE) is a program of the Center for Civic Education that focuses on adapting the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution (WTP) curriculum for students with disabilities, English language learners (ELLs), and students of color. The research questions addressed in the paper are: What are the priorities and needs of middle and high school civics teachers whose classes include significant numbers of ELLs, students with disabilities, and students of color? What are the barriers to successfully implementing civics curriculum interventions in their classrooms? What are the best practices for imparting civic and social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies to the three target student populations? And finally, how was the WTP curriculum adapted to meet the needs of teachers and ELLs, students with disabilities, and students of color?

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Toward an Accessible Civics Curriculum: Adapting We the People for High-Need Students

Owen

Phillips

2023

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“…Civic skills are comprised of a range of proficiencies required for democratic engagement. Although there are wide-ranging perspectives about what constitutes civic skills, most conceptualizations consider skills that involve communication, collaboration, critique, and decision-making (Ata, 2019). The development of civic skills is essential for critical thinking that facilitates collective action (Civic Mission of Schools, 2011).…”

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Teaching Civic Engagement Through Immersive Experience: Students’ Acquisition of Civic Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions

Owen

Irion-Groth

2022

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Civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions are necessary for responsible, productive, and engaged citizenship. Students from less privileged circumstances often attend poorly resourced schools and receive limited or substandard civics training that is especially devoid of attention to skills and dispositions. They also lack access to curricular interventions that take an active learning approach that is relevant to their needs and personal experience. We examine the effectiveness of two programs of the Center for Civic Education—the Congressional Academy for American History and Civics and Project Citizen. The programs take different approaches to active learning that facilitates students’ development of civic skills and dispositions. We find that both programs impart civic orientations to high-need students more effectively than traditional civics classes. Differences in civic learning based on SES, race, and gender were evident which points to the importance of designing civics curricula that meet the needs of diverse student populations.

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“…In addition, education should encourage skills such as critical thinking or decision-making or collaborating which are also referred to as civic skills, but the foundations of civic skills require more basic explanations in the literature [21]. Center for Information and Research on civic Learning and Engagement (2003) in a comprehensive report highlights that civic skills do not exist in a vacuum; they are part of a larger set of ideas about what it is believed necessary for citizens to engage in public life.…”

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Literature Study: Cultivating Civic Skills through Student Organizations in Higher Education

Tamara¹,

Sapriya²

2021

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Progressive Education, ICOPE 2020, 16-17 October 2020, Universitas Lampung,

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This study conducted to gather sufficient information regarding the cultivation of civic skills through student organizations. The method used in this study is a literature study that collects several previous studies to find out how to instill civic skills through student organizations. The results of the study showed that student organizations in instilling civic skills, namely through socialization as a medium for disseminating information and selecting organizational activity programs that can arouse students' mindsets to think critically, responsibly, and scientifically. Common obstacles faced in implanting civic skills are external and internal constraints such as licensing, funding, secretariat, coordination, lifestyle, lack of student interest, and different student backgrounds. However, student organizations have their own ways of overcoming the obstacles faced in implanting civic skills.

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Fostering Students' Civic Skills: Education for Sustainable Democracy

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Toward an Accessible Civics Curriculum: Adapting We the People for High-Need Students

Toward an Accessible Civics Curriculum: Adapting We the People for High-Need Students

Teaching Civic Engagement Through Immersive Experience: Students’ Acquisition of Civic Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions

Literature Study: Cultivating Civic Skills through Student Organizations in Higher Education

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