Making civic engagement go viral: Applying social epidemiology principles to civic education

This paper highlights the impacts of a revised curriculum which incorporated a strong life skills focus into an existing civic education curriculum (for 4-H youth). The revised curriculum resulted in actual youth gains in life skills competencies. The study also explored the effect of volunteer facilitators in the implementation of an added life skills training component. Despite some significant limitations to the internal and external validity of the study, preliminary indications were that adding explicit life skills training content does in fact lead to an increase in life skills competencies. This was clearer in cases where volunteer facilitators fully implemented the additional content versus implementing none or only part of the life skills training. The limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are outlined in the conclusion.

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Media Literacy for Political Cognition in Higher Education

Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-4059-5.ch018 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 305-331

Author(s):

Chad Woolard

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Information Literacy ◽

Civic Education ◽

The Core ◽

2016 Election ◽

Values And Beliefs ◽

Literacy Educators ◽

Pedagogical Approaches

Civic education has long been a goal of liberal education, and many institutions are renewing their commitment to meaningful civic engagement as both a philosophical and educational goal of higher education. Civic engagement and media literacy are essential to fostering democracy. This chapter outlines the shared ideological and pedagogical approaches to civic and political engagement and its connection to media literacy education. The 2016 election cycle has presented a number of challenges for civic engagement and media literacy educators. Many of the core values and beliefs related to critical thinking and information literacy have been challenged.

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Internationalizing Education: A Personal and Professional Journey

The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention ◽

10.18535/ijsshi/v5i12.16 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (12) ◽

pp. 5192-5197

Author(s):

Cameron White, PhD

Keyword(s):

Social Studies ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

International Education ◽

Civic Education ◽

21St Century ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Personal History ◽

History Of ◽

Professional Journey

We all have a personal history of social studies, history, and geography, learning it in schools, applying it in society; regardless, a rethinking of how we approach this is necessary for the 21st century. What we do to ensure meaningful local to global civic education and engagement is vital today. Allowing for voice, critique, controversy, and debate are vital to enhancing sustained global civic engagement; thus a Global / International Education/ Internationalizing framing. This article discusses a personal journal and analyzes the need to address local to global contexts in internationalizing, hopefully leading to critical consciousness and agency.

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Mini-Law School: Civic Education Making a Difference in the Community

10.31228/osf.io/rnuw3 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Pat Newcombe ◽

Beth D. Cohen

Keyword(s):

Civic Engagement ◽

Civic Education ◽

Legal System ◽

Community Outreach ◽

Law School ◽

Outreach Program ◽

School Program ◽

Making A Difference ◽

The Law ◽

Civic Awareness

Published: Pat Newcombe and Beth D. Cohen, Mini-Law School: Civic Education Making a Difference in the Community, 16 SEATTLE J. SOC. JUST. 381 (2018).Western New England’s Mini-Law School Program increases civic engagement and awareness and provides opportunities for law schools and educators to help non-lawyers better understand the legal system. This article will discuss the Mini-Law School Program, a creative and extremely successful five-week community outreach program focused on demystifying the law. Our society is in dire need of greater civic education.Public policy surveys consistently reveal disturbing statistics about the public’s lack of civic awareness (e.g., 15 percent of the public knew that John Roberts is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, but 66 percent could name an American Idol judge; 70 percent could name all Three Stooges, but barely 20 percent could name all three branches of the federal government). The need for increased civic engagement and the importance of education in this era of civic unawareness provides unique opportunities for law faculty to serve as a resource to help educate citizenry and bridge the town and gown divide. This article will describe the surprising success of Western New England’s Mini-Law School Program, an interactive lecture and discussion series focused on providing opportunities for participants to learn about different areas of the law and legal system. The authors provide details of the collaborative endeavor so that others may launch similar Mini-Law School programs in their own communities.

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CIVIC EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (on the example of Kyiv National Linguistic University)

Advanced Education ◽

10.20535/2410-8286.157613 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (13) ◽

pp. 36-43

Author(s):

Iryna Sieriakova ◽

Ganna Kokoza

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Civic Education

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Media Literacy for Political Cognition in Higher Education

Research Anthology on Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Students ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3022-1.ch039 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 757-783

Author(s):

Chad Woolard

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Information Literacy ◽

Civic Education ◽

The Core ◽

2016 Election ◽

Values And Beliefs ◽

Literacy Educators ◽

Pedagogical Approaches

Civic education has long been a goal of liberal education, and many institutions are renewing their commitment to meaningful civic engagement as both a philosophical and educational goal of higher education. Civic engagement and media literacy are essential to fostering democracy. This chapter outlines the shared ideological and pedagogical approaches to civic and political engagement and its connection to media literacy education. The 2016 election cycle has presented a number of challenges for civic engagement and media literacy educators. Many of the core values and beliefs related to critical thinking and information literacy have been challenged.

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