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

Owen, Diana; Irion-Groth, Alissa

doi:10.33774/apsa-2022-b1lk2

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“…The knowledge increases were significantly greater for the PC students than the control group students. Conveying civic dispositions and skills through classroom civics is notoriously difficult (Jamieson, 2013;Owen and Irion-Groth, 2022). The modest gains in civic dispositions and skills would be noteworthy even without the complications of the pandemic.…”

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Fostering Civic Engagement through Project-Based Learning

Owen

2024

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This paper addresses the basic question: Is project-based learning for secondary school students an effective mechanism for developing civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions? The study will focus on Project Citizen (PC), a widely used curricular program of the Center for Civic Education. The Civic Education Research Lab (CERL) at Georgetown University conducted a three-year study of PC from 2020-2023. The project employed a randomized control trial (RCT) that compared students of teachers who took part in PC professional development (PD) and implemented the curriculum in their classrooms to students enrolled in traditional civics and social studies classes. Survey data collected on middle and high school students was used to test hypotheses about the effectiveness of PC in conveying civic orientations. The findings indicate that PC produced significant positive civic learning outcomes when implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fostering Civic Engagement through Project-Based Learning

Owen

2024

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“…the civic education literature that exists at the college level is consistent with much research conducted at the K-12 level. Specific civics courses are linked to higher levels of knowledge, interest, and engagement (Owen and Riddle 2017). Open classrooms and active-learning pedagogies can lead to engagement (see bennion 2015 ;Campbell 2008;berner, Spring, and Ochoa, this volume).…”

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Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next

Bennion,

Michelson

2023

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In the U.S., we have historically looked to our educators to prepare citizens for full participation in our democracy as engaged and informed voters. We examine the student voting movement that has taken root in colleges and universities across the country—a movement that offers a promising way forward in forming a new generation of engaged citizens. We detail what we know about how to increase student turnout, suggest ways to strengthen voter mobilization efforts through a broader civic education agenda, chart a path forward for future research, and offer recommendations for college administrators who seek to make voting a lifelong habit for their students. We also look beyond the student voting movement to argue for new forms of pedagogy that foster civic identity so that students think of themselves as voters who always vote, because voting is a necessary way to express themselves as engaged citizens.

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“…In some developed countries, civic education varies across and within schools. For instance civics offerings range from dedicated Social Studies and American Government classes (Owen, 2015). Azebamwa (2010) presented Civic Education as one of the innovative subjects which were introduced to give both formal and informal training and awareness to the citizens to develop in them that knowledge, values and skills needed for effective participation in the political process and the civil society.…”

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Analysis of Value Content of Civic Education and Social Studies for Citizenship Values in Nigeria

Muritala,

Balogun

2021

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The link between Civic Education and Social Studies is a unique one, the Social Studies curriculum consists of citizenship and societal values, which are also related to Civic Education. This makes the two subjects to be seen as a strong and effective tool to facilitate the production of responsible citizens. Teaching and learning of Social Studies will be meaningful when it is value-based, teachers are expected to guide the students to acquire value education inherent in many topics in the two subjects. However, it must be noted that the purpose of education is for citizenship. But to ensure that students develop an understanding of their country’s most cherished values becomes a debate between Civic Education and Social Studies in the Nigerian educational system. Values are to be rated as important contents of both subjects offered to students at the Basic level in Nigeria. Hence, the need to ascertain the subject that communicates the good values that can contribute to training the learners to assume the status of being a citizen. This study examined the value content of civic education and Social Studies towards citizenship values in Nigeria education system based on the topics taught in the two subjects. The study adopted an ex post facto research design in analyzing the curriculum content of both Civic Education and Social Studies. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and the findings showed that the value content of Social Studies is greater than that of Civic education. This further testifies to the general agreement that Civic Education is a dimension and subset of Social Studies. The study, therefore, recommended that Social Studies be promoted over Civic Education at all levels of education for effective citizenship value in Nigeria.

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

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Fostering Civic Engagement through Project-Based Learning

Fostering Civic Engagement through Project-Based Learning

Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next

Analysis of Value Content of Civic Education and Social Studies for Citizenship Values in Nigeria

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