scholarly journals 2020 Teacher Candidate Voter Turnout: Implications for K-12 and Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-77
Author(s):  
Hannah Jeffries ◽  
William McCorkle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
K 12 ◽  
National Trends ◽  
Nature Of Teaching

This study centers on low youth voter (18-24) turnout nationally by examining a study of teacher candidates at a South Carolina public university. The study is useful to understanding the civic engagement of two important demographics: youth voters and future educators. As teacher candidates, the students tended to have weak civic education backgrounds and a lack of understanding of the inherently political nature of teaching. Paralleling national trends for youth, candidates showed low levels of voter turnout, a disconnect between accessing political information and making informed decisions, and a general cynicism towards electoral politics. The study was able to explore multiple important demographic differences in attitudes towards voting. The study also explored attitudes of practicing teachers towards civic engagement and the implications of these attitudes for K-12 and higher education.

scholarly journals Citizenship Education for Liberation in Nigeria

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
JO Ogunbiyi ◽  
OS Oludeyi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Levels

Across the globe, nations face a problem of low levels of civic consciousness and prevalence of harmful stereotypes like ethno-religious intolerance, prejudice and crises. In many parts of the world, these have degenerated into political crises, youth hooliganisms, prostitution, examinations malpractices, rape victimisation, terrorism and national insecurity. In the Nigerian context, these vices truncate the practical and transparent democratic governance while threatening the country’s federalism and cohesion. Since the purpose of any functional education is to enlighten and liberate the beneficiaries, ensuring that they live a sustainable life while contributing meaningfully to the upkeep of their immediate community, this paper takes a look at citizenship liberation using qualitative civic education. It examines, inter alia, the aims and objectives of qualitative citizenship education and how the principles of civic education can be instilled in the citizens for liberation and peaceful co-existence. The paper further discusses how the spirit of patriotism, unity, love and oneness can be installed in the minds of Nigerians and how they can serve as a lubricant to the wheel of socio-political and economic progress of the nation through adequate citizenship education.Keywords: Higher education for development; Sustainability; Lifelong learning.

Media Literacy for Political Cognition in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 305-331
Author(s):  
Chad Woolard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Literacy Educators ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

Civic education has long been a goal of liberal education, and many institutions are renewing their commitment to meaningful civic engagement as both a philosophical and educational goal of higher education. Civic engagement and media literacy are essential to fostering democracy. This chapter outlines the shared ideological and pedagogical approaches to civic and political engagement and its connection to media literacy education. The 2016 election cycle has presented a number of challenges for civic engagement and media literacy educators. Many of the core values and beliefs related to critical thinking and information literacy have been challenged.

Ensuring Student Wellbeing and Learning via Effective Classroom Assessments

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-125
Author(s):  
Nancy P. Gallavan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Classroom Assessment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Classroom Assessments ◽  
K 12

Teacher candidates reflect upon their most favorite and their least favorite classroom assessment experiences in K-12 and higher education. Through qualitative research methods, their vivid images, compelling influences, and enduring implications are analyzed to reveal clear indicators of teacher presence, practice, and professionalism. Evident in the immediate importance for advancing their understanding and application of their awareness, communication, and self-efficacy, teachers benefit greatly by connecting effective classroom assessments to ensure student well-being and learning for every student.

Media Literacy for Political Cognition in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 757-783
Author(s):  
Chad Woolard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Literacy Educators ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

Civic education has long been a goal of liberal education, and many institutions are renewing their commitment to meaningful civic engagement as both a philosophical and educational goal of higher education. Civic engagement and media literacy are essential to fostering democracy. This chapter outlines the shared ideological and pedagogical approaches to civic and political engagement and its connection to media literacy education. The 2016 election cycle has presented a number of challenges for civic engagement and media literacy educators. Many of the core values and beliefs related to critical thinking and information literacy have been challenged.

scholarly journals Political Science and the Democratic Method: How Higher Education Can Strengthen Democracy at Scale

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Titus Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
The World ◽  
Levels Of Support

This paper proposes a theoretical, methodological and practical approach for political science to improve the effectiveness of democratic governance through civic education and engagement. Every state can be seen as an experiment in political science and a working model of how to govern, developed through trial and error, and peer reviewed by citizens in democratic societies. This insight provides a basis for scholars to help citizens address democratic deficits and improve pluralistic politics as a method for solving problems. Treating institutions as experiments also gives scholars new ways to increase effectiveness of research and civic engagement. The paper provides examples from across the world to illustrate seven levels of support for civic engagement that can be developed to strengthen pluralistic democracy. It concludes with three strategies for a large-scale experimental programme to close democratic deficits and improve democracy as a form of government.

Funding Democracy

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Vincent Bowhay ◽  
Jonathan Sadhoo ◽  
Caitlin Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
Financial Uncertainty

This chapter focuses on the importance of budgets in higher education and their role in advancing civic engagement on college campuses. In a period marked by calls for societal change following the 2020 presidential election, the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, higher education may be the only institution left to respond to society's ills. Institutions must find ways to deliver high-quality education safely, while also encouraging active civic learning as a part of the experience. Higher education's investment in civic education will be a key component to any response to the challenges facing America. Institutions must prepare to respond in kind during a period marked by financial uncertainty.

Critically Literate Citizenship: Moments and Movements in Second Grade

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haeny S. Yoon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Second Graders ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
K 12

With renewed emphasis on civic education in K–12 schools, educators and politicians call for young people to engage in civic action. Worth considering are the kinds of ideas taken up, the performances deemed critical enough, and actions recognized in schools as civic engagement. Drawing from a case study of second graders in New York City (NYC), I move away from hypervisible expressions of civic participation to show how children take up critical literacy and civic action through everyday, ordinary moments. Beyond public displays of social action, how do we build up critically literate citizens who question, disrupt, and engage civically in their daily lives? Highlighted throughout this article are children’s questions, inquiries, and tensions around diverse identities and practices (e.g., religion, race, gender, politics). In centering children’s political agendas, I argue that the production of civic engagement is lived out in the curricular, conversational, and playful moments leading up to social movements.

Turnout for What? Do Colleges Prepare Informed Voters?

2021 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2110459
Author(s):  
Frank Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community College ◽  
College Student ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
College Course

One of the traditional aims of higher education is to prepare informed citizens who are civically engaged. Although many voters are underinformed, there are multiple social benefits to having an informed electorate. Therefore, colleges should aspire to not only increase student voter turnout but to prepare informed voters. In this article, I use matching procedures to account for precollege civic engagement and estimate treatment effects of taking at least one community college course. I find that taking political science influences college student voter registration, voter turnout, and ability to correctly answer questions about the roles of U.S. political institutions.

scholarly journals Sustainability Literacy in a Time of Socio-Ecological Crisis: Using Reaccreditation as a Leverage Point for Innovation in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 5104
Author(s):  
Todd LeVasseur ◽  
Christopher Ciarcia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Leverage Point ◽  
Sustainability Literacy ◽  
Social Environmental

This article presents a case study of innovation in sustainability education in higher education. It does so by explaining the to-date progress of a multi-year reaccreditation process begun in 2016 for the College of Charleston (CofC), a public liberal arts and sciences university in Charleston, South Carolina of approximately 10,000 undergraduates and 1300 graduate students. The question addressed is how can a higher education institute strategically embed sustainability literacy that is focused on social/environmental engagement, in a way that contributes to measurable student learning gains? We argue that the leverage point of institutional reaccreditation provides a strategic entryway into embedding such sustainability across curricular and co-curricular settings in innovative capacities. We do so by discussing how sustainability education was implemented into a co-curricular civic engagement program, alternative break, to build students’ sustainability literacy at the College of Charleston. The article concludes by reflecting on lessons learned at CofC on how to use institutional reaccreditation as a driver of sustainability education through civic engagement in an era of socio-ecological collapse.

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