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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"democratic citizenship"”.
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Reading for democratic citizenship: A new model for readers’ advisory
… and is grounded in the library’s overarching democratic project. Drawing on insights from reader-response criticism, I argue that leisure reading is valuable in part because it offers us opportunities to deliberate on our aesthetic experiences, creatively testing out our ideas, listening and …
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High School Social Studies Teachers Beliefs and Education for Democratic Citizenship
… studies teachers' beliefs about the concept of citizenship. The development of citizenship in young people is an often-stated goal for schooling in the USA. The most prominent social studies professional organization, the National Council for the Social Studies, describes education for …
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From recognition to representation : collective rights and democratic citizenship in the Philippines
… tribal communities affect governance in modern democratic states? Nearly half of UN member states recognize indigenous groups in their constitutions, many devolving control over land and local governance functions. A dominant perspective in political science, rooted in the concept of the …
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Realizing dignity : Dalits rights, land reform, and the learning of democratic citizenship
… and how, are durable inequalities disrupted and democratic citizenship deepened in societies that are politically committed to liberal democracy but have substantial social inequalities? How do law and social movements influence and shape this process? I develop answers by examining a successful …
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The resposivness of civic education teacher training curriculum towrads democratic citizenship in Zambia
… Education Teacher Training Curriculum towards democratic citizenship in two selected Colleges of Education and Universities in Zambia. The study was anchored on the following objectives: To establish the understanding of student teachers and lecturers on the concept of citizenship. To explore …
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Education for democratic citizenship and cosmopolitanism: The case of the republic of Namibia
… policies in Namibia since the introduction of a democratic government in 1990. The analysis reveals that democratic participation through stakeholder representatives is an ideal framework to promote democracy in education discourses, that is, in policy formation, school governance and teaching …
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People and Their Problems: An Exploratory Study of the Quest for Democratic Citizenship in the Administered Society
… problem solving at this level contribute to the democratic capabilities of citizens? If so, how, and does public administration, as the part of government most involved in the daily life of citizens, have a role to play in building this informal capacity for self-government? The communitarian …
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Group Problem Solving as a Method for Developing Values of Democratic Citizenship in Family Life Education: A Field Experiment
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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
… knowledge and attitudes towards participation in democratic citizenship, the only statistically significant difference that emerged showed NJROTC students to discuss international politics with greater frequency than the students in traditional civics classes.</p> <p>On other comparisons, the two …
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Community and the Habits of Democratic Citizenship: An Investigation into Civic Engagement, Social Capital and Democratic Capacity-Building in U.S. Cohousing Neighborhoods
… capital, citizen civic capacity and deliberative democratic engagement in supporting the development of engaged citizens, as well as supporting a democracy that is effective, publicly-minded and accountable. This study contributes to this literature by empirically investigating the potential for a …
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PATHWAYS TO DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF DELIBERATION AND POLITICAL EFFICACY IN THE EFFECTS OF OLD AND NEW MEDIA USE ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN SOUTH KOREA
… and mainstream media's failure to provide a democratic public forum. With the penetration of online and social media, the participatory culture of South Korea has significantly and qualitatively changed. During the last 10 some years, citizens actively used Internet media, such as online and …
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Toward a Framework of Inclusive Social Studies: Obstacles and Opportunities in a Preservice Teacher Education Program
… for inclusive education. Drawing on theories of democratic citizenship education and Disability Studies in Education, inclusive social studies envisions a socially democratic educational setting that fosters the development of a community of learners, attempts to balance the unity and diversity …
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Paul Ernest's Social Constructivist Philosophy of Mathematics Education
… his conceptions of mathematical knowledge and democratic education. Specifically, I use textual analysis to interpret what he intends for each group of students and to critically analyze the conceptions of mathematical knowledge and democratic citizenship implicit in each set of …
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Socrates, Democracy and Civic Education: A Study of the Gadfly as Guide to the Formation of Democratic Citizens
… tension between order and liberty in our democratic regime, this dissertation argues that a pious gadfly may be a more useful model for democratic citizenship because it better satisfies the requirements of citizenship for our democratic regime. This dissertation explores a civic education …
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Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought
<p>Is imprisonment democratic? On the one hand, incarceration is a space of democratic inequality. Disenfranchised from voting, left off juries, and restricted in speech, the prisoner is excluded from the democratic community. On the other hand, incarceration has a long association with democratic …
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From Cradock, With Love: Affective Substantive Post -Apartheid Citizenship for Women of Colour
… examines conceptualizations of post-apartheid democratic citizenship. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in July 2009 with twelve voting age women of colour in the small town of Cradock in the Eastern Cape, it demonstrates how traditional theorizations are inadequate for …
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State, Civil Society and Political Change: The Dialectics of Democratisation in Nigeria
… of struggles to achieve conditions of democratic citizenship in Nigeria and the setbacks to these efforts. In particular, examination of this struggle focuses on political engagements in the contexts of the press, organised labour struggles and organised engagements by political …
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Exercising Non-Dominant Mediative Power Violence Interruption in the Periphery Communities of Florianópolis, Brazil
… complexity of local tensions and the erosion of democratic citizenship that these tensions produce. Defining mediative practices as a source of power invites discussion into community mediation’s strategic potential in the project of urban peacebuilding and violence reduction, positing new …
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Deliberation as an Epistemic Endeavor: UMunthu and Social Change in Malawi's Political Ecology
… dissertation examines the epistemic role of democratic processes in Malawi. In this study, I challenge the view that Malawi’s Local Government model of public participation is representative and open to all forms of knowledge production. Through a case study analysis of the political economy …
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Silent Readers, Silenced Readers: LGBT Student Perceptions of LGBT Representation in Composition Readers
… both diversity and preparing students for just, democratic citizenship, this persistent silence in our readers must be broken."
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