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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Active Citizens"”.
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Democratising Democracy: Reimagining Prisoners as Active Citizens Through Participatory Governance
This thesis explores the work of the non-profit organisation User Voice and its prison-based democratic council model. Mixed methods were employed to examine the construction and operation of a council, which strives to give a voice to prisoners and to facilitate collaborative problem-solving with …
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Where are the active citizens of tomorrow? We need them now...
… Hindess labelled the gap between governments and citizens the democratic deficit. This gap, or deficit, has arisen over a long time period as a result of public scandals, perceptions of poor performance and poor economies. Local governments around the world are now attempting to regain community …
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Young People as Active Citizens: Placing Youth Participation Structures in The Republic of Ireland under Critical Scrutiny
… of the Child, the State is obliged to extend citizenship rights, including the right to actively participate in the democratic process, to children and young people. Two structures are under review; the thirty-four youth councils, Comhairle na nÓg, and the annual youth parliament, Dáil na nÓg. …
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College Leadership Programs and Citizenship Development: Preparing Students to be Agents of Social Change
… leadership program prepares them for responsible citizenship. Specifically, this multi-case investigation explored the differences between how curricular and co-curricular leadership development programs approach citizenship development. Students' perspectives and experiences were collected …
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The Civic Life of the City Block
Town planning and political interaction of citizens are the main factors that affect civilizations on the most basic level. My study comes from an understanding of a need for a society to develop politically active citizens that are ascetic in nature, less they wish for a more despotic government. …
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New medium, new practice : civic production in live-streaming mobile video
… phones, coupled with the increasing mobility of citizens and the rise of digital production as an embedded technosocial practice, is creating incentives for many people around the globe to engage in media creation. Mobile phone users are beginning to explore personal broadcasting through …
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Active citizenship in the administrative state
… develop an answer to the practical question of active citizenship in the administrative state. In political philosophy, the literature of direct democracy suggests that active citizens are people capable of learning to make decisive judgments in the public interest. But critics have held that …
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Discourses of Disability and Sexuality: Barriers to Sexual Citizenship
… that prevent disabled people from being sexually active citizens. I begin my looking to the historical, political, and cultural construction of disabled people’s sexuality as a problem. Next, I take a cross-cultural perspective. I provide a cultural history of disability and sexuality in 20th …
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To what extent is the New Deal for Communities an appropriate basis on which to tackle social exclusion?
… the expectations placed on residents to be `active citizens' and `owners' of urban regeneration. This raises, in turn, some important questions about the inclusive nature of the New Deal for Communities programme as a whole. The thesis concludes with a discussion of whether the programme can …
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From class to club : an exploration of high school civic-minded student organizations from 1996-2011 in Corpus Christi, Texas
… has long claimed that preparing students to be active citizens is one of its main goals. With high-stakes testing pressures, schools with high minority enrollment have been found to cut back social studies programs and/or implement a drill and practice fragmented teaching style. (Center on …
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The Internet as a Participatory Medium: An Analysis of the Eksi Sozluk Website as a Public Sphere
… community discusses socio-political issues as active citizens and to what extent this web-based public space has a considerable potential that fosters democratic rational-critical discourse.</p>
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Political organisation, leadership and communication in authoritarian settings: Digital activism in Belarus and Russia
Citizens of authoritarian regimes face multiple constraints when they express critical political views using digital media. The regime may monitor their activities, censor their speech or persecute them. Despite these challenges, politically-active citizens organise outside of traditional …
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Skirtingų Lietuvos gyventojų kartų pilietinio aktyvumo analizė /
A democratic state cannot function without active citizens. Meanwhile, there are visible changes in democratic states that young people vote more and more passively. On the other hand, studies show that this group actively participates in protest politics. Such trends are opposite to the behaviour …
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Civic Fitness: The Politics of Breast Cancer and the Problem of Generosity
… experience, and conduct of American identity and citizenship. More specifically, it focuses on the emergence of breast cancer as a philanthropic cause par excellence and asks, what knowledges and truths propel and emerge from breast cancer-related technologies of giving, and, how are these …
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Mokinių pilietiškumo ugdymo raiška mokykloje /
STUDENTS CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION EXPRESSION IN SCHOOL Problematic issues of the research. What are the characteristics of young people as a citizen? What is the opinion of young people, what is important for a person who is a citizen? How do students perceive the importance of citizenship education? …
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Investigating ‘active citizenship’: a journey toward the political heart of education in the company of Hannah Arendt.
The formation of ‘active citizens’ has become a desirable educational outcome in mainstream secondary and adult education in the UK. However, there is a wide range of interpretations regarding what being ‘active’ as a citizen actually involves and a lack of consensus on the role of education in …
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Learning to Change and Changing Learning in Environmental Management: A case study of the Kaw Nature Reserve in French Guiana
… Yet, participation can range from informing citizens to offering them decision-making power. Only participation that allows for an open, respectful negotiation of conservation planning and implementation opens the door to engaging, place-appropriate conservation, rather than conservation …
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Learning to Change and Changing Learning in Environmental Management: A case study of the Kaw Nature Reserve in French Guiana
… Yet, participation can range from informing citizens to offering them decision-making power. Only participation that allows for an open, respectful negotiation of conservation planning and implementation opens the door to engaging, place-appropriate conservation, rather than conservation …
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Youth-adult Partnerships Creating Positive Environmental Change
… Most placed higher value in developing youth as citizens and change agents than in promoting environmental improvements. Evident in practitioners' narratives was a tension between encouraging youth autonomy while maintaining authority. Practitioners experienced and managed this …
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South Africa's social assistance intervention as a building block of a developmental state
… the social grant income assisted them to become active citizens. A minority of respondents, especially those with small businesses or employment, perceive the grants as a backup in case of business failure or retrenchment. My assumption of cash transfers having a developmental impact has been …
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