Best Practices in Civic Education: Lessons from the<i>Journal of Political Science Education</i>

Bennion, Elizabeth A.; Laughlin, Xander E.

doi:10.1080/15512169.2017.1399798

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“…Consensus built that the field of Political Science has a responsibility to not only teach civics, but to prepare citizens who are eager to engage their democracy. Bennion and Laughlin (2018) summarize the efforts by colleges and the American Political Science Association to reorient civics instruction to civic and political engagement goals. If the responsibility to renew civic life falls on political scientists, the introduction to American government classroom is where it will happen.…”

Section: Traditional American Government Coursesmentioning

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Centering Justice in Introductory American Government Courses

Parsons

2023

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One of the core responsibilities of modern American universities is to prepare students for their role in the American democratic system. The organization of syllabi and textbooks has changed very little over time and offers a piecemeal survey of institutions, processes, and developments. This can be disengaging for todays college students who are already familiar with the content and desire to see change in the political system. This paper highlights an alternative organization of traditional American Government content framed around justice rather than institutions. . This paper features a comparison of the justice course syllabus with the American Government textbook assigned by traditional course sections at the same institution. It highlights the shared content, terms, theories, events, and documents presented in both courses, but offers an alternative frame for meeting learning objectives. The paper concludes with general recommendations on centering justice in political science courses.

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Section: Traditional American Government Coursesmentioning

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Centering Justice in Introductory American Government Courses

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2023

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“…The low participation rates of young people are a concern that civics education has hoped to address (Colby et al 2010). Political science education has provided several approaches to engage students in their communities and building skills to help make them productive citizens (Bennion and Laughlin 2018). This lesson continues this tradition by focusing on specific political actions of young people throughout history.…”

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Institutions of Engagement: Political Participation in College Yearbooks

McSweeney¹

2023

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College campuses are an important location for young people to fight for their interests. Throughout the years, major events on campuses have been covered by student journalists and archived in college yearbooks. Yearbooks are most often student run and independent from the campus administration providing an example of students telling the story of students. Therefore, as our students explore these books, they will observe events occurring in familiar locations making it easier to relate and connect with the individuals involved. In this paper I describe a lesson where students use college yearbooks as a hands-on tool to help them understand the more complex history of student civic engagement. Beyond a lesson on civic engagement, students will also learn more about their institution as they observe changes and continuities over time. Exploring yearbooks also provides students with experience exploring archives and analyzing qualitative data.

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“…They involve aspects, such as political engagement, political understanding (political knowledge about theories and current political events), political skills (related to specific ways of political involvement: organizing people, political strategies, political discussion, or discourse), and political participation and democratic virtues, among others ( Beaumont et al, 2006 ; Persson et al, 2020 ). The teaching of political competencies, however, has been an increasingly relevant but insufficiently investigated issue (see Beaumont et al, 2006 ; Andersson, 2015 ; Bennion and Laughlin, 2018 ). In the past 15 years, however, there has been growing interest in exploring, comprehending, and evaluating the effect of political discussion as a way to develop these competencies.…”

Section: Deliberative Argumentation and Sustainable Citizenship: Where Is The Evidence?mentioning

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Deliberative Teaching as an Emergent Field: The Challenge of Articulating Diverse Research Agendas to Promote Educational Experiences for Citizenship

2021

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Democracies are increasingly dependent upon sustainable citizenship, that is, active participation and engagement with the exercising of rights in a field of plural interests, often contradictory and in conflict. This type of citizenship requires not only social inclusion, habits of knowledge, and evidence-based reasoning but also argumentation skills, such as the individual and social capacity to dispute and exercise individual and social rights, and to deal peacefully with sociopolitical conflict. There is empirical evidence that educational deliberative argumentation has a lasting impact on the deep and flexible understanding of knowledge, argumentation skills, and political and citizenship education. However, these three trends of research have developed independently with insufficient synergy. Considering the relevance of deliberative education for contemporaneous democracies and citizenship, in this paper we seek to converge in a field of interlocution, calling it deliberative teaching. Our aim is to propose a way to increase the dialog and collaboration between the diffuse literature on argumentation and education, highlighting both the main theoretical and empirical gaps and challenges that remain and the possibilities to advance our knowledge and the educational impact that this integrating field could offer.

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Best Practices in Civic Education: Lessons from theJournal of Political Science Education

Cited by 26 publications

References 62 publications

Centering Justice in Introductory American Government Courses

Centering Justice in Introductory American Government Courses

Institutions of Engagement: Political Participation in College Yearbooks

Deliberative Teaching as an Emergent Field: The Challenge of Articulating Diverse Research Agendas to Promote Educational Experiences for Citizenship

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