ERIC EJ1101889: Empowering Teaching for Participatory Citizenship pdf

ERIC EJ1101889: Empowering Teaching for Participatory Citizenship

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In spite of the fact that public schools were established to prepare students for citizenship, the alignment of teaching practice with this goal is poor. In part, this is because the knowledge base about the efficacy of curricular and pedagogical approaches in supporting specific civic outcomes is limited, as is our knowledge about the extent to which civic learning is constrained to pedagogical objectives specifically taught vs. the generalizability of what is learned to other civic outcomes. In this paper we evaluate the impact of three interventions aimed at training teachers to use a specific pedagogical approach (i.e. lesson planning, participatory learning, and a combination of both) to teach civic education to low-income eight-grade students in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. These pedagogies aimed at improving teacher practices used to teach the civic education curriculum and fostering a specific set student’s civic skills. Using data from a cluster randomized experimental design at the classroom level, we found positive impact of the three civic education pedagogies on teacher practices reported by students.

We also found statistically significant impacts on a range of students’ civic dimensions explicitly targeted by the curriculum. Finally, we found limited or no evidence of transfer of effects to civic dimensions not explicitly targeted in the curriculum

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2014
• Year: 2014
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Low Income, Generalization, Educational Objectives, Teaching Methods, Civics, Intervention, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Education, Outcomes of Education, Lesson Plans, Statistical Analysis, Experimental Groups, Transfer of Training, Grade 8, Mexicans, Grade 9, Questionnaires, Reimers, Fernando M.|Ortega, Maria Elena|Cardenas, Mariali|Estrada, Armando|Garza, Emanuel

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