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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Civics"”.
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The teaching of civics in the public schools
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Instituting issue-based civics in the 11th grade classroom
… of this study was to identify if issue-based civics would produce any difference in a student's attitude for and appreciation in civics. The second goal was to identify if issue-based civics would produce any difference in a student's comprehension levels in civics. The last of these goals was …
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Organizing for Freedom: The Angola Special Civics Project, 1987-1992
… to as Angola, founded the Angola Special Civics Project to collectively organize for prison reform. Using a combination of oral history and archival research, this thesis argues that the Angola Special Civics Project emerged during an era of political opportunity created by the coupling of …
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Conceptions of Citizenship and Civic Education: Lessons from Three Israeli Civics Classrooms
… citizenship influence their teaching of civics. The research of this topic is pursed based on a set of comparative analytic case studies that observe different ways in which conceptions of the notion of good citizenship manifest in three Israeli high school civics classrooms. This study …
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A study of references cited in textbooks in the field of civics
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Challenges Facing the Teaching of Civics Subject in Morogoro (Urban) District Secondary Schools
This study assessed the challenges facing civics teachers on teaching civics subject in secondary schools in Morogoro (Urban) District in Tanzania. Three research objectives were addressed namely: (1) Identify the challenges facing civics teachers on teaching civics subject in secondary schools (2) …
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Civics in American Public Schools: State Constitutions and the Right to an Education
… constitutional standards for education, civics requirements have little national consistency. This thesis explores the connections between state constitutional provisions for public education and graduation requirements for civics in each state. The research examined how state …
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Civics Revisited? An Exploration of the Factors Affecting the Implementation of CSPE in Five Post-Primary Schools.
Civic, Social and Political Education, or CSPE, was introduced into Irish post-primary schools in 1996. The nineteen nineties are looked upon as a period of great innovation in Irish education. One of the prime aims of CSPE is the promotion of active and participative citizenship. CSPE is a new …
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Civic associations in Khayelitsha : transition from politics of resistance to community development
… to play in a post-apartheid South Africa (SA). Civics truly played a major role in bringing about democracy in our country. Now the political changes that have occurred forces Civics to redefine their role within a democratic society. Widespread speculations are that Civics will focus in …
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Urban high school students' attitudes toward democratic citizenship: A comparison of students in the NJROTC program and students in traditional civics classes
… that a positive relationship exists between civics education and increased civic and political knowledge; however, classroom instruction alone cannot provide all that is needed to promote a community of civic-minded individuals. Further, a survey of state level civics standards acknowledged …
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“Citizenship is what you are, what you do, and how you appear in Front of Other People in [the] Society you Live”: Lessons on Gendered Citizenship in a Tanzanian School
This case study examines how civics education and forces of schooling shape Tanzanian girls’ perceptions of citizenship. Girls often experience multiple barriers, including gender discrimination, when participating as young citizens. Gender concepts have been incorporated into the Tanzanian civics …
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The effects of characteristic prototypicality and level of previous experience on the perceptions of political leaders
… There was a significant gender by experience by civics knowledge interaction for the subjects' overall impression of the candidate (favorability) and the candidate's likelihood of success as president, and for rating 1 (a composite rating of six specific abilities). In the low experience …
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Achievement of public and non-Catholic private high school students within a matched sample
… in basic and advanced math, science and civics are not significant although all but the civics tests show a small non-Catholic private advantage. The multiple regression analyses suggest that, for the most closely matched pairs, non-Catholic private school students have a small …
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National Education Systems in the European Union
… curriculum and practicies in the area of civics or citizenship education. National education systems could easily be co-opted by education policies and practices of the European Union. If this is the situation and if the suggested curricula are effective, there may be evidence related to …
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Voter turnout in Saskatchewan : how important are civic education and community participation?
… in an effort to find changes in the way civics has been taught. Marked changes have iv been found, and differences in the prescribed teaching of civics throughout the years point to the possibility that the way in which civics is taught to students may have an effect on whether they feel …
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A Cross-National Study of Civic Knowledge Test Scores
… level predictors included teacher's degree in civics, in-service training, teaching confidence, and school safety in addition to the compositional variable created as the classroom/school averages by aggregating the student level variables. Then I investigated whether instructional methods …
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Citizen participation in the budget process in local government: a case study of the eThekwini Municipality
… and evaluated the perceptions of councillors and civics and ratepayer organisations on participation in the local budget process at the eThekwini Municipality.
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School Based HIV and AIDS Interventions for Girls with Visual Impairments (GVIs)In Selected Secondary Schools in Tanzania.
… topics were hipped in only two subjects, i.e. Civics and Biology. GVIs developed sufficient knowledge about life skills, attitudes and intention for abstinence from sexual practices but not for condom use. GVIs faced challenges including discrimination, labeling, condom inaccessibility and …
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