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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hampden-Thompson, Gillian; Jeffes, Jennifer; Lord, Pippa; Bramley, George; Davies, Ian; Tsouroufli, Maria; Sundaram, Vanita – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
Based upon the findings of a national survey of school coordinators and leaders on citizenship and community cohesion, this research indicates that teachers perceive their students to feel a sense of belonging to multiple communities, each with their own required actions for effective participation. There appears to be wide variation in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Participation, Citizenship Education, Service Learning
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Metzger, Molly W.; Erete, Sheena L.; Barton, Derek Lee; Desler, Mary K.; Lewis, Dan A. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
We present findings from the first wave of a longitudinal study of civic and political engagement among undergraduate students at a mid-sized university in the Midwestern United States. We find that high school experiences of civic learning are a significant predictor of three of our four measures of civic and political engagement, namely, the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Longitudinal Studies, Undergraduate Students, Citizen Participation
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Maruatona, Tonic – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
In spite of its overall economic success, most citizens living in the remote areas of Botswana face poverty and are unemployed. The article argues that minority communities in remote areas are excluded because education programs use unfamiliar languages and de-contextualized curricula, there is no national qualifications framework to sufficiently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Social Justice, Minority Groups
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Strandbrink, Peter – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
This article investigates the normative logic and orientation of civic and religious education in seven countries in northern Europe. One main underlying argument is that public schooling must be generically regarded as a heavy functional contributor to the "soft" normative reproduction and validation of certain ethical and cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Civics, Citizenship Education
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Ghosh, Sujay – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
Citizenship is about individual's membership in the socio-political community. Education for citizenship conceives issues such as quality education, learning society and inclusion. Educational thinking in India has long valued community as a learning resource. With empirical experiences drawn from the programme of "Ecology and Natural…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs
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Diazgranados, Silvia; Noonan, James – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
In Colombia, reducing levels of interpersonal and community violence is a key component of the country's approach to citizenship education. In this study, we use data collected during the 2005 Saber test of Citizenship Competencies to examine the relationship of school environments and individual students' supportive attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Safety, Violence, Classification