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Karwowski, Maciej; Zielinska, Aleksandra; Jankowska, Dorota M. – Review of Research in Education, 2022
Creativity is a vital topic of various educational discourses, yet the support it receives within the school system is insufficient. This chapter focuses on four particular ways of making creativity more democratized, salient, and accessible in school settings. We start by exploring the educational benefits of egalitarian theoretical approaches to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Meta Analysis, Educational Psychology, Imagery
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Moses, Michele S.; Saenz, Lauren P. – Review of Research in Education, 2012
This chapter examines the following central question: How do direct democratic ballot initiatives affect the public good? A second, related question is this: When voters collectively make policy decisions, what responsibilities do researchers have to contribute to informing public deliberation about the relevant issues? In an attempt to answer…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Voting, Participative Decision Making, Democracy
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Garcia Bedolla, Lisa – Review of Research in Education, 2012
The strong relationship between education and civic engagement is what leads Fraga and Frost (2010) to describe the U.S. school system as a "center of democratic governance" (p. 119). For immigrant communities, schools also serve to foster political socialization and incorporation. This chapter considers schools' democratic roles from an…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Citizen Participation, Immigrants, Hispanic Americans
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Rogers, John; Mediratta, Kavitha; Shah, Seema – Review of Research in Education, 2012
In this article, the authors explore the potential of youth organizing to promote civic development, new forms of civic engagement that make public institutions more accountable and responsive to the needs of their constituencies, and an expanded commitment to acting in the interest of the public good. Their analysis draws from both the literature…
Descriptors: Youth, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
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Ladwig, James G. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
This chapter attempts to survey contemporary debates and research on outcomes of schooling that have been grouped together under the convenient label "nonacademic". This is not an affirmative labeling. As the nomenclature indicates, it is not a label that groups together things that share like properties. Rather, this is a label of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Environmental Education, Democracy, Civics
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Gandara, Patricia; Moran, Rachel; Garcia, Eugene – Review of Research in Education, 2004
The 50th anniversary of "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954 also recalls the anniversary of "Lau v. Nichols", decided exactly 20 years later in 1974. The two decisions were monumental in the history of civil rights and, interestingly, have shared similarities in the ways in which they have been reinterpreted since they were…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Democracy, Laws, Persuasive Discourse