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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Political education"”.
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The Rhetoric of Jimmy Carter: Renewing America’s Confidence in Civic Leadership through Speech and Political Education
… we might navigate our current crisis of higher education within communication and the humanities. In Carter, we can find a glimmer of hope that we might restore our confidence in civic leadership, public speaking, and political education, and influence college and university students to engage …
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Queen Victoria's Library: The Place of Reading and Writing in Victoria's Political Education, Self-Improvement and Self-Curation
… active pursuit that underpinned and produced her political opinions, supported her in her grief, and was a tool she expertly wielded in her self-curation. By centring reading in the study of Queen Victoria, examining both what she read and how she read, this thesis elucidates its role in her …
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Participation Through Political Education. A mixed methods study assessing the utility of an inclusive democratic promotion framework for enhancing youth engagement interventions.
… flagship policy of compulsory Citizenship Education, it utilises co-production to create a fully resourced intervention curriculum. The impact is assessed through pre and post surveys with mini lab style experimental components. With increased levels of political interest, knowledge …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… migrants’ agency and acknowledge migrants as political and social actors, few studies connect Filipina migrant workers’ activist identities to the political education they receive from grassroots organizations in the Philippines, United States, and other countries. Consequently, the purpose of …
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Citizenship education in Irish secondary schools: the influence of curriculum content, school culture and stakeholder perspectives
… research interrogates the status of citizenship education in Irish secondary schools. The following questions are examined: How does school culture impact on citizenship education? What value is accorded to the subjects, Civic, Social and Political Education (CSPE) and Social, Personal and Health …
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Involving Students in their own learning: The Experience of a first year Curriculum innovation
… a high level of satisfaction with their basic education; reading, writing and a calculation skills (Hannan and Shorthall, 1991). The level of satisfaction with personal and social development, preparation for work and other adult roles however fall short of the targets reached by basic …
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A Study of the Partition of Palestine
… it might be useful to share with others the political education which it \vas my privilege to obtain in my own country.</p>
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Organizing for Freedom: The Angola Special Civics Project, 1987-1992
… Special Civics Project emerged during an era of political opportunity created by the coupling of political openings and contractions. Unlike outside advocates who focused their reform efforts on internal conditions, the Angola Special Civics Project centering of prisoners’ experiential knowledge …
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THE THIRD WORLD WOMEN’S ALLIANCE: HISTORY, GEOPOLITICS, AND FORM
… intersecting Third World histories and geopolitical analyses through political education, publications, and cultural events. In addition to this historical study, I seek to understand the ongoing presence of the TWWA in educational spaces through interviews with archivists and professors …
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The presentation of politics : the place of party publicity, broadcasting and film in British politics, 1918-1939
… Labour - declared their commitment to rational political education as the basis of effective democracy. Yet belief in the continuing ignorance and irrationality of the electorate, in the dishonest propaganda of their opponents and, for the Conservatives, in the threat to democracy posed by …
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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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Labour and the media in Britain 1929-1939 : a study of the attitudes of the Labour movement towards the new media, film and radio, and of its attempts to use them for political purposes
… late 1920's coincided with the introduction of political broadcasting in Britain and a further extension of-the franchise, inaugurating a new political era. The mass communication of information assumed a more potent political form since these new media commanded vast audiences and were now …
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Loyalist or Patriot: The Precarious Position of Edmund Randolph, 1774-1786
… a richer understanding of Edmund Randolph's political education and make up. Edmund Randolph's early years make it possible to see the bifurcation of the Virginia social elite, which had important implications for the construction of a new American brand of constitutionalism.</p>
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From Wedge Strategy to Kitzmiller: Rhetorical Analysis of the Intelligent Design Argument Series
… result of motivating factors that include media, political influences, legal and social issues, economic pursuits, the experimental procedure itself, peer review, and, central to this thesis, the lack of science education of the public. Intelligent Design, a much discussed potential theory of …
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Language and ideology: a linguistic analysis of school textbooks from the FRG and the GDR, with special reference to the role of language in socialisation
… of linguistics, in psychology, pedagogics, political science, and sociology. Part I discusses the corpus and the conceptual framework of the thesis. The role of language in the creation and maintenance of ideology, and the contrasting ways in which this finds expression in political …
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"Until the last Rebel": A study of the Green Brigade as a politicised football supporters' "Subculture"
… research, it examines the group's activities, political culture, and experiences of policing. This study aims to provide a broad overview of the group, while also exploring areas such as policing and political culture in more detail. All interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and …
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The political socialisation of schoolgirls in England, 1870-1914
… a key site for working and middle-class girls’ political socialisation in late Victorian and Edwardian England. It challenges conventional interpretations of the gendering of politics in the period by showcasing schoolgirls’ active participation in parliamentary, electoral, suffrage, and …
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Playful Occupations: Mobile Creative Coding for Critical Consciousness
… to the movement’s grassroots mobilizations and political education. Using a combination of Participatory Action Research and Social Design Experimentation approaches, we co-designed and implemented a series of creative coding workshops and a projects guide tailored to MTST’s community. These …
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