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Publication Date: 2021
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Teaching Students to Be Political in a Nonpartisan Way: Reflections from Action Civics Education across Red and Blue States
Andes, Sarah; Fitzgerald, Jason C.; Cohen, Alison K.; Warren, Scott
Peabody Journal of Education, v96 n3 p285-293 2021
Using a student-centered approach, Generation Citizen's (GC) action civics model helps students gain civic knowledge and skills as they work together to take action on a local issue in their community. This paper draws upon reflections from GC's decade-plus of teaching action civics at scale in middle and high schools across the United States, highlighting drivers for nonpartisan civics education efforts in Texas, Oklahoma, California, Alabama, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. Reflections on GC's work also point to the opportunities and challenges that GC encountered as it scaled We suggest future directions for research and practice for nonpartisan action civics work into the next decade.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Civics, Citizenship Education, Middle School Students, High School Students, Social Problems, Student Participation, Social Studies, Diversity, Consciousness Raising, Barriers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Rhode Island; New York; Massachusetts; Alabama; California; Oklahoma
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