Innovation in Civic Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 181-198
Author(s):  
Tom Driscoll III ◽  
Shawn McCusker
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Instructional Approaches ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Equity Issue ◽  
Education And Technology

Educators, advocacy groups, and policymakers are mobilizing to strengthen civic education across the nation. These renewed commitments must be designed and implemented in ways that ensure today's graduates are ready to effectively engage in modern civic life. Since civic education is key to effective participation in our democracy, ensuring a quality civic education is also an equity issue. Students must have foundational knowledge about our nation's values and government, effectively evaluate the validity of claims in digital media, take and defend positions across multiple platforms, and leverage technology to inform and mobilize their community around ideas they care about. This chapter explores proven practices in civic education and technology-enhanced instructional approaches that schools can leverage to modernize their civic education programs.

Innovation in Civic Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-203
Author(s):  
Tom Driscoll III ◽  
Shawn McCusker
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Instructional Approaches ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Equity Issue ◽  
Education And Technology

Educators, advocacy groups, and policymakers are mobilizing to strengthen civic education across the nation. These renewed commitments must be designed and implemented in ways that ensure today's graduates are ready to effectively engage in modern civic life. Since civic education is key to effective participation in our democracy, ensuring a quality civic education is also an equity issue. Students must have foundational knowledge about our nation's values and government, effectively evaluate the validity of claims in digital media, take and defend positions across multiple platforms, and leverage technology to inform and mobilize their community around ideas they care about. This chapter explores proven practices in civic education and technology-enhanced instructional approaches that schools can leverage to modernize their civic education programs.

The Philosophical Foundations of Civic Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Peter Levine ◽  
Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro
Keyword(s):  
Civic Education ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Philosophical Foundations

Those who study and evaluate civic education programs are often reticent about their values or unsure how to defend them. Peter Levine and Ann Higgins-DAlessandro offer a range of philosophical resources for thinking about the values that society should hold and how it should try to transmit these values through civic education to future generations.

scholarly journals The Advocacy Journal Club

2019 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Talmon ◽  
Alejandro Wolf ◽  
Mariam Molani ◽  
Kimberly Martin ◽  
Elizabeth Waibel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Graduate Medical Education ◽  
Journal Club ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Local Practice ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Significant Difference

Abstract Objectives To describe a method of educating pathologists about health policy. Methods The Advocacy Journal Club was a series of six conferences. Topics were of those in the news or affecting local practice. Participants reviewed preparatory readings, completed a six- to 10-question pretest, attended an interactive presentation stressing advocacy groups’ efforts, and completed a posttest. All were invited to complete a survey after the sessions. Results Faculty and residents had increased posttest scores following each presentation with a significant difference in four and three sessions, respectively. More than 80% agreed they could discuss the topics with others and understood how regulations affect practice. More than 90% agreed that they gained an understanding of how involvement in organizations’ advocacy initiatives affects policy. Conclusions We present a method for educating pathologists about policy and the role of professional societies that could be implemented by nearly all graduate medical education programs.

scholarly journals Troubling Dialogue and Digital Media: A Subaltern Critique

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630512098444
Author(s):  
Katie R. Place ◽  
Erica Ciszek
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
Marginalized Groups

Over the past several decades, scholars have explored dialogue and digital media. While this scholarship has advanced strategic communication theory, it lacks a critical focus on how marginalized groups have been written out of these theories and practices. We bring a critical lens to dialogue, employing a subaltern critique to elevate the experiences and voices of members of an activist group working on behalf of low-income, minority women. Advancing theoretical and empirical work on dialogue and social media, our study approaches activist communication and dialogue through a co-optation orientation, to consider how advocacy groups are co-opted or erased through dialogic methods entailed in dominant discourses and how these groups exert agency and resistance. While social media may not always help activists penetrate the walls upheld by powerful social actors, they offer connective and transformative possibilities.

scholarly journals Estándares TIC para la Formación Inicial Docente: Una Política Pública en el Contexto Chileno

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Eusebio Silva Quiroz
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
Education And Technology ◽  
Work Done

Several institutions, worldwide, have established ICT standards and are updating them to guide ICT usage by teachers and teacher education programs. Though Chile has the Enlaces project, a regionally and internationally recognized initiative for ICT insertion, it did not count on an ICT Standards Proposal to guide teacher education programs. For this reason, the Center for Education and Technology CET-ENLACES of the Ministry of Education of Chile (MINEDUC) has developed, since 2005, a policy to integrate ICT into Teacher Education. This article introduces the work done to define those standards and the actions taken to make them known and used by universities involved in teacher education.

Creating the Citizen

2022 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Steve Masyada ◽  
Elizabeth Yeager Washington
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
College Career ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter presents an approach to civic education that integrates critical literacy with the research-based promising practices of civic education and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies Standards. The authors present a definition of critical literacy that reflects a broad-based approach to the concept while exploring what critical literacy may look like within a civic education classroom and the ways in which this reflects a particular approach to good citizenship. Perceived connections between critical literacy, the promising practices, and the dimensions of the C3 Framework are illustrated throughout the chapter, and the authors provide a real-world example to demonstrate what integration may look like in practice through either extra-curricular or classroom-based student engagement.

"No Backpacks" versus "Drugs and Murder": The Promise and Complexity of Youth Civic Action Research

2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Rubin ◽  
Brian Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Civic Learning

Although young people have diverse experiences with civic life, most civic education practices in classrooms fail to recognize this complexity. In this article, Beth C. Rubin and Brian F. Hayes describe the results of a year-long research project that incorporated a new approach to civic learning into public high school social studies classrooms. They explore how students' disparate experiences with civic life shape civic identity development in complex and challenging ways across two distinct contexts. They offer a fully elaborated conceptualization of civic learning in settings of "congruence"and "disjuncture" and describe how the practice of connecting students'lives and experiences to the curriculum through civic action research, while promising,can also create dilemmas for both students and educators.

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