Active Citizenship Making A Difference

Author : Lucia Downey
Publisher : States Academic Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1639890130

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Active Citizenship: Making a Difference by Lucia Downey Pdf

A philosophy that advocates that members of charitable organizations, companies, or nation-states have certain roles and responsibilities to society and the environment is referred to as active citizenship. It can be sighted as an articulation of the debate over rights versus responsibilities. There are two complementary aspects of citizenship: citizenship rights and active citizenship. Individual freedoms, political, civil, social, and economic rights are part of citizenship rights while active citizenship includes civic responsibility, campaigning, taking action against injustice, and holding the government accountable. The inference is that an active citizen is one who fulfills both their rights and responsibilities in a balanced way. The book studies, analyses and upholds the pillars of active citizenship and its utmost significance in modern times. It picks up individual topics and explains their need and contribution in the context of a growing economy. For all readers who are interested in active citizenship, the case studies included in this book will serve as an excellent guide to develop a comprehensive understanding.

Author : Marc Kielburger,Craig Kielburger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780471431732

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Take Action! by Marc Kielburger,Craig Kielburger Pdf

* Raise awareness * Start a club * Use the media * Make a difference * Get involved * Choose an issue * Build a team * Have fun! Make a difference in your hometown and around the world! Inspired by the vision, spirit, and activities of thousands of kids working to improve the lives of others, Take Action! shows how you, too, can change the world. Authors Marc Kielburger and Craig Kielburger are the founders of Leaders Today, an organization dedicated to helping young people realize their fullest potential and become socially involved. Their remarkable work has been profiled on Oprah and on many national news shows, as well as in magazines and newspapers across the U.S. and Canada. Now, with Take Action!, they provide easy-to-follow guidelines for making a difference in the lives of people all over the globe. By following the valuable tips, strategies, and examples in this book, you'll get organized and start tackling important issues in your community, your school, your country, and around the world. From writing letters and public speaking to planning fundraisers, preparing petitions, and working with the media, Take Action! covers all the basics of how to become socially involved-and have fun at the same time! You'll discover how you and your friends can join the fight for children's rights, get involved in environmental issues, help those suffering from hunger and poverty, and much more. You'll also meet other extraordinary young people like yourself who turned their thoughts and passion into action and have made a tremendous impact on these issues. There are no limits to what you can accomplish. You can be a leader and help others today-all you have to do is Take Action!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1954240775

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Active Citizen by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nick Brune,Mark Bulgutch
Publisher : Gage Educational Pub.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : 077158198X

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Canadian by Conviction by Nick Brune,Mark Bulgutch Pdf

Author : Pam Christie,Bob Lingard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000247589

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Teachers and Schooling Making A Difference by Pam Christie,Bob Lingard Pdf

Teachers + Schooling Making a Difference takes seriously the question that teachers ask, 'What do I do on Monday?' and does provide answers.' From the foreword by Professor Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin Education debates are currently dominated by free-market ideologists who push privatisation and competition as the answer to every problem, regardless of damage to schools and pupils. Teachers + Schooling Making a Difference shows that we can think about education in a far more productive way.' Professor R.W.Connell, University of Sydney This book is a lesson in making hope practical.It makes a compelling argument for recognising, supporting and enabling teachers as central to progressive school reform.' Professor Jenny Ozga, University of Edinburgh What teachers do in the classroom really matters, even though schools cannot compensate fully for difficulties children may face at home and in society. Good teachers and good schools have been making a difference in children's lives for generations, but what exactly is it that works? Based on extensive research in 1000 primary and secondary classrooms, this book examines the tough questions about teaching methods, curriculum, assessment and teachers' professionalism. The authors isolate the key elements that make the difference in the classroom, and offer teachers practical approaches to working with all their students. Teachers and Schools Making a Difference is essential reading for teachers and school administrators who want to improve their professional skills and offer a genuinely democratic education.

Author : Stella Dadzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Communitarianism
ISBN : 1862010773

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Making a Difference by Stella Dadzie Pdf

An outcome of the Adult and Community Learning Fund, this resource offers a series of clearly signposted practical activities, designed to stimulate discussion about active citizenship, to explore some key ideas, and to develop knowledge and skills associated with individual and community action.

Author : Jaap Scheerens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402096211

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Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School by Jaap Scheerens Pdf

Active citizenship is an objective of schooling in an increasingly complex context, in which social cohesion of the multicultural society is a cause for growing societal concern. International co-operation between European countries and a growing heterogeneity of the (school) populations of most European countries have led to an increased interest in education for citizenship. The core question dealt with pertains to the role that schools can play in developing citizenship through formal and informal learning. Day-to-day school life is seen as a rich environment in which aspects of functioning in a democratic society and dynamic interplay with rules, leadership and peers with different backgrounds are experienced and form a source of learning. In this view the school context functions as a micro-cosmos to exercise “school citizenship” as a bridge to societal citizenship and state citizenship. The book brings together material from Cyprus, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Romania and The Netherlands.

Author : Hongtao Jing
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789819941797

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Developing Global Awareness for Global Citizenship Education by Hongtao Jing Pdf

This book has explored in depth the beliefs and practices of foreign language teachers regarding global awareness in the context of a Chinese senior high school. This book defines global awareness as a combination of global knowledge, global attitudes, and global skills for a global citizen to act from the local community to the global community. By analysing qualitative data such as classroom observations, interviews and focus groups with language teachers and linking these findings to language education policy and practice in China, this book has explored how English language teachers teach English language, intercultural communicative competence and global awareness in China. This book will be of interest to researchers, language teachers and students in the fields of language education and intercultural communication. It also provides a readable overview for those new to the field of ICC and global citizenship education.

Author : Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti,Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136582387

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Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti,Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza Pdf

This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary case studies and conceptual issues. From a transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective, this book offers critiques of notions of development, progress, humanism, culture, representation, identity, and education. It also examines the implications of these critiques in terms of pedagogical approaches, social relations and possible future interventions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0748760210

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Enquiries Into Global Citizenship by Anonim Pdf

Developed to answer the need for teaching material in this area, this resource provides an innovative and practical approach to Citizenship at Key Stage 3. The work is also suitable for use in Scotland for S1/S2.

Author : Jason Harshman,Tami Augustine,Merry M. Merryfield
Publisher : IAP
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681230696

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Research in Global Citizenship Education by Jason Harshman,Tami Augustine,Merry M. Merryfield Pdf

Globalization is changing what citizens need to know and be able to do by interrupting the assumption that the actions of citizens only take place within national borders. If our neighborhoods and nations are affecting and being affected by the world, then our political consciousness must be worldminded. The outcomes of globalization have led educators to rethink what students need to learn and be able to do as citizens in a globally connected world. This volume focuses on research that examines how K-12 teachers and students are currently addressing the challenge of becoming citizens in a globally interconnected world. Although there is an extensive body of literature on citizenship education within national contexts and a growing literature on global education, this volume offers research on the work educators are doing across multiple countries to bring the two fields together to develop global citizens.

Author : Jorge A. Arevalo,Shelley F. Mitchell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785361241

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Handbook of Sustainability in Management Education by Jorge A. Arevalo,Shelley F. Mitchell Pdf

This Handbook strives to enhance knowledge and application within sustainability in management education (SiME) across different academic programs, geographic regions and personal/professional contexts. Cross-disciplinary and boundary-spanning, this book focuses on specific themes and is therefore split into four distinct sections: one on theory and practice, one on transformational interventions in business programs, one on the role of external agents and the last on innovative approaches in SiME.

Author : Derek Hooper,Jane Farrell,Annie Hedge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1872941583

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Can They Do That? by Derek Hooper,Jane Farrell,Annie Hedge Pdf

This book contains the materials required to conduct a seven-unit course in what it means to be an active citizen in the United Kingdom. The units are intended to be used in return to study and access courses and were written to be of immediate practical relevance to providers of further education college- or community-based courses for various audiences, including voluntary, women's, and self-advocacy groups and tenant's associations. The materials are designed to develop students' critical thinking skills, extend their critical understanding of democratic and legal processes, and promote development of practical skills of advocacy and assertion. Each unit contains student materials, tutor's notes (including methods for presenting the unit, discussion questions, and group activities), and suggestions for further study. The lesson topics are as follows: rights and responsibilities of citizenship; making and changing laws; democracy and disability (statistics, campaigning for change, the politics of disability); health and citizenship (illness and society, health care entitlements, community health councils); education (citizen involvement, statistics, life after school); justice and the legal system (the criminal and civil systems, the courts, costs of the legal system); and belonging and unbelonging (British subjects and passport holders over the past 50 years). (MN)

Author : Rob Gilbert,Libby Tudball,Peter Brett
Publisher : Cengage AU
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780170424165

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Teaching Humanities & Social Sciences by Rob Gilbert,Libby Tudball,Peter Brett Pdf

Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences, 7e prepares teachers to develop and implement programs in the humanities and social sciences learning area from F-10. It successfully blends theory with practical approaches to provide a basis for teaching that is engaging, inquiry-based and relevant to students’ lives. Using Version 8.1 of the Australian Curriculum, the text discusses the new structure of the humanities and social sciences learning area. Chapters on history, geography, civics and citizenship, and economics and business discuss the nature of these subjects and how to teach them to achieve the greatest benefit for students, both as sub-strands within the Year F-6/7 HASS subject and as distinct Year 7-10 subjects. Throughout, the book maintains its highly respected philosophical and practical orientation, including a commitment to deep learning in a context of critical inquiry. With the aid of this valuable text, teachers can assist primary, middle and secondary students to become active and informed citizens who contribute to a just, democratic and sustainable future.

Author : Bernard Crick
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748643226

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Active Citizenship by Bernard Crick Pdf

Active Citizenship gathers a group of political actors and academics who believe a radically more active citizenship is a worthy aim. They spell out how it can be achieved in their particular area of concern, looking at the obstacles and how they might be overcome. Together, they shows us how we can realise the dream of a citizen culture and what benefits it would bring for democracy in the UK.Bernard Crick's first and final essays set the tone, respectively, on Civic Republicanism Today and Political Identity. Other contributors consider active citizenship in relation to: Labour Government Policy (David Blunkett and Matthew Taylor); Scottish Devolution (George Reid); Public Services (David Donnison); Gender Equality (Rhona Fitzgerald); Schools (Pamela Munn); Multiculturalism (Dina Kiwan); Integrating Immigrants (Elizabeth Meehan); Lifelong Learning (John Annette); Europe and International Understanding (Derek Heater); Young People (Andrew Lockyer) and Scottish Independence (Kevin Francis).