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Immigration and Naturalization Service (Dept. of Justice), Washington, DC. – 1970
Course arrangement, specific helper instructions, and terminology are covered in this helper's handbook for home study candidates for naturalization who speak English to learn to read and write English. It is intended to be used to give a limited amount of help provided by a family member or neighbor, and accompanies the booklet "English and…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Civil Rights, Democracy, Governmental Structure
Smith, Pheny Shang-Fen Zhou – 1989
A comparison is made between the educational philosophies of Confucius and John Dewey. The comparison is limited to four aspects of education: democracy, instruction, learning, and scientific attitude. Confucianism emphasizes the necessity of self-examination, of the cultivation of virtue, and of education as the means of producing the kind of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Confucianism, Democracy, Ethical Instruction
Keirnes, Barbara – 1980
This monograph takes the position that citizens in a democracy can and should be largely internally controlled and that schools play an important role in preparing democratic citizens by helping students develop the necessary attitudes and skills needed to become internally controlled. Part 1 looks at discipline from a sociological perspective,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Discipline Policy, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Schliessmann, Michael R. – 1978
Senator Robert LaFollette's speech to the United States Senate on "Free Speech and the Right of Congress to Declare the Objects of War," given October 6, 1917, epitomized his opposition to the war and the Wilson administration's largely successful moves to suppress public criticism of the war. In the speech he asserted his position on…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Democracy, Dissent, Federal Government
Hahn, Carole L. – 2001
What do ninth grade students in the United States know about democracy and democratic principles? What attitudes do they have toward civic issues? What experiences have they had in democratic participation and how engaged do they expect to be in the political arena as adults? How do youth in the United States compare with their peers in other…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Democracy, Democratic Values
Oesterreich, Heather – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
Civic education and its call for social studies to prepare students for citizenship in a participatory democracy have been limited to the political domain and touted as participation with the already existing political domain. This paper is a reflection of how engaging with and challenging heterosexism, homophobia, and heteronormativity in a…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Citizenship, Political Socialization
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1982
Designed to assist teachers and supervisors in the implementation of the global history course, this bulletin presents learning activities which include the rationale, performance objectives, and teaching strategies related to Theme IV entitled, "Developing Democratic and Nationalist Movements Have Had an Effect around the World." There are four…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Democracy, Global Approach
Ducatel, Ken, Ed.; Webster, Juliet, Ed.; Herrmann, Werner, Ed. – 2000
This book takes stock of the existing socioeconomic knowledge about a range of the core social issues of the information society. Chapter 1, "Information Infrastructures or Societies?" (Ken Ducatel, Juliet Webster, Werner Herrmann), is an introduction. Part 1, "Space, Economy, and the Global Information Society" looks at the processes of economic…
Descriptors: Communications, Computers, Democracy, Developed Nations
Macpherson, R. J. S. – Secondary Administrator, 1983
Many of the arguments in the Victoria Department of Education, Australia, against the involvement of school councils in the selection of principals are based on careerism, opportunism, and protectionism. To move away from the lock-step adherence to the values that lead to accession by seniority requires the application of democratic methods.…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Selection, Boards of Education, Community Involvement
Soobitsky, Joel R. – 1971
The objectives, strategy, and methods recommended for future urban 4-H programs are discussed. Specifically explored are the major factors in society that influence the establishment of objectives for these programs, namely: the American democracy, the nature of man, and the external and internal social forces within our environment. Extension…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Democracy, Evaluation Methods, Extension Agents
Kisida, Brian; Wolf, Patrick J. – Education Working Paper Archive, 2007
Political theorists have long argued that the average citizen's lack of information and lack of clear policy preferences provide the rationale for public policy to be guided by experts and elites. Others counter that it is precisely the practice of deference to elites that perpetuates and even exacerbates the problem of apathetic and uninformed…
Descriptors: Class Size, Democracy, School Choice, School Size
Freeburger, Adela R.; Hauch, Charles C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This bulletin notes that Chile was one of the first Latin American republics to achieve political democracy, with all aspects of its cultural, educational, and philosophical life influenced by Spanish tradition, reinforced by French and Italian influences. This document provides a brief historical background, then proceeds to describe the system…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Private Education, Democracy
Kitchen, Jennifer – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article, understanding populism as an essentially undemocratic ideology, argues that the pro-social theatre education approach of ensemble pedagogy can offer a model of educational practice which counters these anti-democratic rhetorics by creating a shared space for the enactment of empathetic discourse. Via an ethnography of the UK…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Democracy, Civics, Caring
Bosakova, Kristina; Bykova, Marina F. – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2021
This article examines approaches to education developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and his contemporary and close friend, Friedrich Niethammer, two thinkers who significantly contributed to pedagogy. The aim is not only to compare both thinkers' ideas concerning education, analysing the similarities and the differences between their…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Democracy, Student Development
National Issues Forums, Dayton, OH. – 1989
This publication presents reports from National Forums '89, the culminating event of the National Issues Forums (NIF) 1988-89 cycle. A brief overview of this event is followed by a summary of the session entitled Executive Branch Conference: Reports from the Forums, in which policymakers were briefed on the outcomes of each of the 1988-89 issues.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Discussion Groups