Innovations in Civic Education: Developing Civic Agency Through Action Civics

Blevins, Brooke; LeCompte, Karon; Wells, Sunny

doi:10.1080/00933104.2016.1203853

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“…Media consumption and circulation as everyday practices of participatory politics. In civic education (Blevins, LeCompte & Wells, 2016), media literacy education (Hobbs, Donnelly, Friesem & Moen, 2013), and youth journalism (Clark & Marchi, 2017) a common model is to engage students in a process of first researching information about an issue and then using that information for publication or action, followed by reflection. This process has much to recommend by preparing youth to work collectively to make their voices heard.…”

Section: Areas In Need Of Further Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers and Circulators

Middaugh¹

2018

JMLE

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Amid growing concerns over the role of "fake news" in civic and political life, efforts to understand how to best prepare youth to evaluate and reason about online sources have gained a sense of urgency. However, less attention has been paid to how such skills are used in the context of the broader array of information behavior that is typical of civic and political participation today-particularly in the circulation of information. Through thematic analysis of interviews and think aloud tasks with n=24 urban high school students reasoning through the processes of search, credibility analysis and circulating information for the purposes of issue advocacy, two considerations for civic media literacy education emerged. First, greater attention is needed to educating youth to coordinate the considerations for factual accuracy with the social and emotional components of civic media, particularly once they move beyond the task of being asked to assess media and into the tasks of searching for or choosing to share media. Second, greater attention is needed on circulation in civic media literacy and what it means to share information ethically and responsibly.

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Section: Areas In Need Of Further Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers and Circulators

Middaugh¹

2018

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“…These shifts are aimed at making the daily experiences of young people the catalyst for formal civic education-what Cohen, Kahne, and Marshall (2018) describe as a "lived civics approach" (p. 3). This approach is the basis for action civics programs that seek to transform rote memorization of factual knowledge about the branches of government into participatory inquiry in which students to pursue remedies to self-identified community issues (Blevins, LeCompte, & Wells, 2016;Levine, 2015).…”

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“I Hesitate but I Do Have Hope”: Youth Speculative Civic Literacies for Troubled Times

Mirra

Garcia

2020

Harvard Educational Review

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In this essay, Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia explore how young people from six demographically distinct communities across the United States understand the social and political issues affecting their lives, engage in storytelling and dialogue across differences, and collaboratively imagine humanizing and hopeful civic futures. Drawing from critical race perspectives on democracy and civic education, and with an expansive vision of the nature and purpose of literacy, Mirra and Garcia develop a speculative approach to civic literacy research and practice that centers the voices and concerns of young people, honors differences of identity and expression, and manifests ideological commitments to equity, empathy, and collective struggle to ward off civic disintegration. Findings from their social design-based experiment foreground counterstories in which youth challenge their positioning as not-yet-citizens, create opportunities to engage in civic life on their own terms, and leverage their repertoire of literacy practices to invent new possibilities for inclusive democratic community life.

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“…Digital media should be understood as an environment full of opportunities for community engagement from the perspective of critical pedagogy, educating citizens in how to question social and structural inequalities through reflection and, above all, social and political engagement and involvement [34]. Blevins [35] asserted that for young people having the opportunity to engage in discussions, decisions and actions from different points of view they need to be committed and active members with their environment. Young people are not politically disaffected, as shown by various protest movements ("15M" and "Fridays For Future" are some examples), but instead use new forms of unconventional political engagement through social networks [36].…”

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Educating Digital Citizens: An Opportunity to Critical and Activist Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

Díaz

Prados

2020

Sustainability

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The 2030 Agenda sets out seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The educational goal is to promote the education of citizens on sustainable development, among other things. Educating today’s digital citizens on sustainability means training them for justice and social activism, commitment and political engagement. However, research into the subject shows a lack of consistency in the education of university students. This paper presents a study of students of Education, on education on sustainability through the practice of active and critical digital citizenship. A quasi-experimental method was used to learn about the behaviors of digital citizens, and intervention was carried out by means of an SDG-focused workshop and observation of the final level of commitment. The results show a positive level of commitment and digital activism around content related to sustainable development, which can be addressed from the university syllabus in a cross-curricular way.

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Innovations in Civic Education: Developing Civic Agency Through Action Civics

Cited by 63 publications

References 27 publications

Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers and Circulators

Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers and Circulators

“I Hesitate but I Do Have Hope”: Youth Speculative Civic Literacies for Troubled Times

Educating Digital Citizens: An Opportunity to Critical and Activist Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

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