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Sánchez Loza, Dinorah – Theory Into Practice, 2021
Affluent suburban high schools are often framed as success stories given their academic achievement outcomes including those on civic measures. Yet, more analyses are needed that interrogate how youth in these schools come to think and act politically. This article shifts the gaze onto these predominantly White schools to investigate the…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Suburban Schools, High Schools, Whites
Grammes, Tilman; Açikalin, Mehmet – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2016
The classroom with its teaching-learning dynamics creates a kind of "embryonic society" in which the micro-policies of collective social knowledge construction and meaning can be re-constructed; therefore, it can be considered as a kind of "mirror" of political culture. Thus, comparative lesson research, which requires in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Utler, Stine Johansen – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the political aspects of 1st- to 4th-grade social studies education in Norwegian primary schools through qualitative interviews with 30 social studies teachers. The research examined how and to what extent politics is in focus in initial social studies education using the pre-political perspective as a theoretical…
Descriptors: Political Science, Elementary School Teachers, Citizenship Education, Social Studies
Dufour, Barry – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
The main developments in this broad curriculum area are traced decade by decade with key signpost successes highlighted, along with examples of retrenchment and opposition to the march of progress. The drivers for change and regression were often central government initiatives but, all along, the activity of progressive educationists/academics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Curriculum Development, Time Perspective
Gatens, Rosanna M.; Johnson, Mary – Journal of International Social Studies, 2011
This article explores the use of Holocaust, genocide and human rights education to teach political competencies for American students in the 21st century.
Descriptors: War, Death, Jews, European History
Szabo, Mate – Suedost-Europa, Zeitschrift fuer Gegenwartsforschung, 1989
The contradictions of political education in East European socialist countries based on the Hungarian experience are explored in this paper. Divided into three parts, the first part gives a brief sketch of institutionalized political education, while the second concerns the crisis of Hungary's political education emerging in the 1980s. In the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Langeveld, Willem – 1979
The problems, practices, objectives, and desirability of political education in the secondary school social studies curriculum is evaluated. The author suggests that political education should be a compulsory subject in junior and senior high schools. The document is presented in eight chapters. Chapter I explores the relationship between…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizenship, Cultural Influences, Developed Nations
Osborne, Kenneth W. – 1984
This monograph contains five papers concerning political education in Canada. Chapter 1, "Political Education and the Teaching of Politics," considers the historical and philosophical connections between education and politics. Chapter 2, "Civics, Citizenship and Politics: Political Education in the Schools," explores…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Hidden Curriculum
Andersson, Erik – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Teachers find it difficult to conduct political controversial conversations in the social science classroom and due to an increased use of social media in educational settings new challenges and possibilities are raised. The use of social media causes fundamental changes to the role of the learner who becomes a producer and consumer--a…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Media, Political Attitudes, Interpersonal Communication
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Schluss, Henning – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2001
Examines the intentions of political education and the legitimization strategies of civic education, as illustrated by social studies, that constitutes the central subject of political education in Thuringia (Germany). Focuses on issues such as redefining the concept of transformation and the concept of civic and political education. (CMK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Klassen, Cees – International Journal of Political Education, 1981
Describes some of the theoretical approaches of political education that have been developed in Dutch high school-level citizenship education programs. Dutch political education has focused on conflict resolution, citizenship and moral approaches, critical approaches, Marxist ideas, sociological and/or political science approaches, and social…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Philosophy
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Davies, Ian – Oxford Review of Education, 1999
Provides a brief historical background on political education in England. Describes four reasons for the development of political education policies during the 1970s, the three types of political education (political literacy, 'new' or 'adjectival' education, and education for citizenship) promoted from 1969-98, and four trends across political…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Educational History, Educational Policy
Monreal, Timothy; McCorkle, William – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
Teachers' beliefs and awareness regarding immigration policy is an area of research that has been largely unexplored in the broader discussion of socio-political consciousness and critical social studies education. This study is based on a multi-methods methodology, particularly a partially mixed sequential equal status design (Leech and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Immigration
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Shafer, Susanne M. – International Journal of Social Education, 1991
Discusses political education in the postwar Federal Republic of Germany. Describes a U.S. led reeducation program founded upon principles of denazification and democracy and examines German responses. Identifies the influence of the Soviet Union upon West German education. Analyzes the growth of political education in the 1960s, its maturation,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Jatuporn, Omsin – Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
After the junta came to power in May 2014, the military government started exercising their nation-centric hegemony through the educational policies and curriculum planning. Contemporary curriculum reform is employed as a mechanism for maintaining the status quo of elites group who have held privileged positions among the Thais. Looking through…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Politics of Education, Global Approach, Global Education