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Young People and Active Citizenship in Post-Soviet Times

Author : Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz,Anna M. Zalewska,Kerry J. Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317190349

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Young People and Active Citizenship in Post-Soviet Times by Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz,Anna M. Zalewska,Kerry J. Kennedy Pdf

Situated within the context of "post-soviet times", this book explores young people’s citizenship activities and values in three distinct environments: post-soviet union countries, post-soviet union satellites, and countries that were independent of the soviet-union. Its purpose is to investigate the influence of these contexts on the ways young people see their citizenship in what are now emerging democracies. The future of nations depends to a large extent on whether citizens will continue to support existing values and will engage in activities to support those values. Using a framework designed by Kennedy (2006) and further developed by Zalewska, Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz (2011) the study examined the citizenship values of 3794 students aged 11-14-18 from 11 European countries. The main themes of this book include exploring similarities and differences in citizenship activities within countries and across countries; advancing explanations for these similarities and differences; highlighting the importance of contexts that influence citizenship activities and values; and assessing the extent to which democratic values are reflected in young people’s citizenship activities.

Young People in Post-Soviet Russia

Author : Nadia Ptashchenko
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640398751

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Young People in Post-Soviet Russia by Nadia Ptashchenko Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 7, Uppsala University, course: M.A. "Euroculture: Europe in the Wider World", language: English, abstract: During the course of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union rose and fell, and Russia re-emerged. The Russians were left "feeling robbed of a sense of place, of purpose and of identity" . By the mid-1990's, Russia, while contending with the ups and downs of economic crisis and the health of its leaders, was trying to find its own course, attempting to resurrect past glories, learn from recent mistakes, and forge a place in a community of nations. Together with society, youth was going through a period of change in its ideological, economic and moral values. According to Martha Olcott, "it was Russian youth, who seemed to suffer disproportionately from the numerous social disorders in the USSR at the end of the decade". Ilynsky talks about the widespread moral decay in Russia in the 1990's and the lack of direction among many young people - "their poor understanding of freedom, lack of faith in politicians, growing sense of injustice and general concerns about what the future might bring". Russian identity is and has been a topic of continual argument, of conflicting claims, competing images, contradictory criteria. According to S. Franklin, "Russia is continually represented as a question, a field of possibilities, a set of contradictions". After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 even more intensified self-questioning in the "new" Russia started. Usually, such questions have been posed by the young population of Russia who happened to live in the period of global economic and ideological transitions. What kind of country is Russia to be? What has happened to young people in the post-Communist phase? The focus of this paper is how the changing economic, political and social geography of Russia affected the youth since the fall of communism in 1991

Reconstructing Democracy and Citizenship Education

Author : Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz,Kerry J Kennedy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000614336

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Reconstructing Democracy and Citizenship Education by Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz,Kerry J Kennedy Pdf

This book compares the current status of democracy in selected Eastern European countries. The focus is on young people’s attitudes towards and experiences of democracy, including active political engagement. In many of these countries, democracy has been hard-won and may well need to be defended again in the future. The contributors collectively reflect on young adults exercising their civic rights and how they can influence the political system at both formal and informal levels. The chapters present different issues that arise in unique contexts but overall reflect the changing status of democracy and its effects on young people’s citizenship activity and education. The volume compares perspectives of three groups of Eastern European countries with different traditions and past histories of democracy and citizenship: Central European countries (Poland, Czech, Hungary); Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia); and post-soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldova). These countries differ in the status given to democracy, citizenship action traditions and education. At the same time, many countries have experienced recent turbulence related to democracy and different kinds of actions by young people. Comparing them leads to conclusions about omissions made in current citizenship education provision and what needs to be done for a better understanding of the needs of citizenship education in these difficult times. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in citizenship and civic education, sociology, political science and Eastern European Studies.

Civic and Citizenship Education in Volatile Times

Author : Kerry J Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811363863

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Civic and Citizenship Education in Volatile Times by Kerry J Kennedy Pdf

The book highlights current issues influencing civic and citizenship education and their theoretical underpinnings. It provides an overview of the key features influencing ‘democratic deconsolidation’ , suggests ways in which civic and citizenship education needs to be reframed in order to fit this new political environment, and demonstrates how social media will play a significant role in any future for civic and citizenship education. Currently, democratic institutions are under attack, democratic values are threatened, and there is a wide-scale retreat from the liberal consensus that has underpinned liberal democracies internationally. These trends can be seen in events like, Brexit, the election of a right-wing populist President of the United States and, anti-democratic governments in parts of Europe. It is this change in the direction of political ideology that is currently ‘deconsolidating democracy’ and thus challenging traditional approaches to civic and citizenship education. What is urgently needed is an understanding of these current trends and their implications for thinking in new ways about civic and citizenship education in the 21st century.

Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies

Author : Barbara Malak-Minkiewicz,Judith Torney-Purta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030711023

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Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies by Barbara Malak-Minkiewicz,Judith Torney-Purta Pdf

This open access book identifies the multiple ways that IEA’s studies of civic and citizenship education have contributed to national and international educational discourse, research, policymaking, and practice. The IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), first conducted in 2009, was followed by a second cycle in 2016. The project was linked to the earlier IEA Civic Education Study (CIVED 1999, 2000). IEA’s ICCS remains the only large-scale international study dedicated to formal and informal civic and citizenship education in school. It continues to make substantial contributions to understanding the nature of the acquired civic knowledge, attitudes, and participatory skills. It also discusses in-depth how a wide range of countries prepare their young people for citizenship in changing political, social, and economic circumstances. The next cycle of ICCS is planned for 2022. In this book, more than 20 national representatives and international scholars from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and North America assess how the processes and findings of the 2009 and 2016 cycles of ICCS and CIVED 1999/2000 have been used to improve nations’ understanding of their students’ civic knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, current civic-related behaviors, and intentions for future participation in a comparative context. There are also chapters summarizing the secondary analysis of those studies’ results indicating their usefulness for educational improvement and reflecting on policy issues. The analyses and reflections in this book provide timely insight into international educational discourse, policy, practice, and research in an area of education that is becoming increasingly important for many societies.

Interrogating Belonging for Young People in Schools

Author : Christine Halse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319752174

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Interrogating Belonging for Young People in Schools by Christine Halse Pdf

In an era when many young people feel marginalized and excluded, this is the first comprehensive, critical account to shed new light on the trouble of ‘belonging’ and how young people in schools understand, enact and experience ‘belonging’ (and non-belonging). It traverses diverse dimensions of identity, including gender and sexuality; race, class, nation and citizenship; and place and space. Each section includes a provocative discussion by an eminent and international youth scholar of youth, and is essential reading for anyone involved with young people and schools. This book is a crucial resource and reference for sociology of education courses at all levels as well as courses in student inclusion, equity and student well-being.

Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Author : Charles Walker,Svetlana Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135701246

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Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Charles Walker,Svetlana Stephenson Pdf

Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities and transitions in their personal lives against a backdrop of thoroughgoing transformation in their societies. Drawing upon original empirical research in a range of countries, the book's contributors explore the various freedoms and insecurities that have accompanied neo-liberal transformation in post-socialist countries - in spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, political participation, volunteering, employment and family formation - and examine the ways in which they have begun to re-shape different aspects of young people's lives. In addition, while 'social change' is a central theme of the issue, all of the chapters in the collection indicate that the new opportunities and risks faced by young people continue both to underpin and to be shaped by familiar social and spatial divisions, not only within and between the countries addressed, but also between 'East' and 'West'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Youth Studies.

Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times

Author : Christine Halse,Kerry J. Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000394306

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Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times by Christine Halse,Kerry J. Kennedy Pdf

This book interrogates politics and practices of multiculturalism and multicultural education in contexts where liberal and critical multiculturalism is under pressure. It examines and interrogates perspectives on multiculturalism and the political and social to diversity in societies in Asia and Europe. It is set against a background of increasing right wing radicalism and pervasive authoritarianism in different parts of the world. These ideologies not only undermine multiculturalism but the potential of democracy itself. The book includes chapters from leading scholars on multiculturalism, interculturalism and diversity around the world. It examines the challenges to multicultural diversity in the Global North, and makes a distinctive contribution by addressing this issue in the Global South societies of Asia, including Myanmar, China, and Pakistan. As such, this book opens up international debate about multiculturalism by providing exchanges rarely heard across borders.

Civic Engagement in Changing Contexts

Author : Kerry J. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811674952

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Civic Engagement in Changing Contexts by Kerry J. Kennedy Pdf

This book addresses contemporary issues on civic and citizenship education, challenging not just schools but society as a whole. It highlights emerging social influences on civic engagement and democracy in the third decade of the 21st century and analyzes the interaction between these influences and their impact on society. It demonstrates that changes are so complex and the challenges so new that an entirely revised agenda is needed for civic and citizenship education. The book takes society and the changes occurring within it as the starting point and assesses the implications of these changes for schools.

Young Adults and Active Citizenship

Author : Natasha Kersh,Hanna Toiviainen,Pirkko Pitkänen,George K. Zarifis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030650025

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Young Adults and Active Citizenship by Natasha Kersh,Hanna Toiviainen,Pirkko Pitkänen,George K. Zarifis Pdf

This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means to engage and re-engage young adults and facilitate their life chances and social inclusion thus contributing to an active citizenship within their societal contexts. This collection of chapters dealing with issues of social inclusion of young people represents the first book to explicitly approach the complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship from the European perspective. Social exclusion, disengagement and disaffection of young adults have been among the most significant concerns faced by EU member states over the last decade. It has been increasingly recognised by a range of stakeholders that there is a growing number of young people suffering from the various effects of the unstable social, economic and political situations affecting Europe and its neighbouring countries. Young adults who experience different degrees of vulnerability are especially at risk of being excluded and marginalised. Engaging young adults through adult education has been strongly related to addressing the specific needs and requirements that would facilitate their participation in social, economic and civic/political life in their country contexts. Fostering the active citizenship of young people, both directly and indirectly, is an area where many AE programmes overlap, and this has become a core approach to integration. This book considers social, economic and political dimensions of active citizenship, encompassing the development of social competences and social capital, civic and political participation and the skills related to the economy and labour market. The cross-national consideration of the notions of vulnerability, inclusion and active citizenship underpins the complexity of translating these concepts into the national contexts of adult education programmes.

Assessment as Learning

Author : Zi Yan,Lan Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000426533

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Assessment as Learning by Zi Yan,Lan Yang Pdf

Based on a solid theoretical basis of assessment-as-learning and updated empirical evidences, this timely book significantly expands the existing scope of assessment-as-learning typically developed in Western contexts. This edited volume updates theoretical and empirical advances in assessment-as-learning in complex learning processes, brought together by an international panel of authors. The contributors provide a wide range of practical ways to harness the power of assessment-as-learning to make it work more effectively not only in the classroom, but also across other achievement-related situations (e.g. examinations, learning processes before and after classes). Assessment as Learning provides a deep contemporary insight into the field of formative assessment, and brings much-needed international perspectives to complement the current Western-focused research. This is a valuable contribution to the discussion, and provides useful insight for researchers in Education.

Quality in Teacher Education and Professional Development

Author : John Chi-Kin Lee,Timo Ehmke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000454161

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Quality in Teacher Education and Professional Development by John Chi-Kin Lee,Timo Ehmke Pdf

This book addresses the past and changing contexts of Chinese and German teacher education under the impact of globalization and echoes "quality" issues of teacher education. This edited book provides a comprehensive discussion on other issues in the management and implementation of change in teacher education related to teacher education curricula for professional development of teachers. A combination of chapters provides an overview, a review of literature and research as well as offering examples of teacher education practice and updated empirical research on these topics co-edited by two senior scholars and written by experts from Mainland China (including Hong Kong ) and Germany. The volume addresses key issues on teacher standards, ICT in education and e-learning in teacher education, STEM education, vocational teacher education, university-school partnership in teacher education and teaching Chinese or German as a second language. This is an up-to-date academic book to look at profound issues related to quality in teacher education and teachers’ professional development in mainland China and Germany. It will be a useful reference for graduate students and researchers in the field of international and comparative education, teacher education and curriculum studies, teacher educators and practitioners to learn from trends, best practice and challenges that have been encountered in Mainland China and Germany.

Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World

Author : Javier Calvo de Mora,Kerry J. Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429663475

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Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World by Javier Calvo de Mora,Kerry J. Kennedy Pdf

This book has two purposes: To open up the debate on the role of informal education in schooling systems and to suggest the kind of school organizational environment that can best facilitate the recognition of informal learning. Successive chapters explore what is often seen as a duality between informal and formal learning. This duality is particularly so because education systems expend so much time and effort in certifying formal knowledge often expressed in school subjects reflecting academic disciplines.Recognizing the contribution informal learning can make to young people’s understanding and development does not negate the importance of valued social knowledge: That complements it. Students come to school with knowledge learnt from their families, peers, the community and both traditional and social media. They should not have to "unlearn" this in order to enter the world of formal learning. Rather, students’ different learning "worlds" should be integrated so that each informs the other. In a knowledge-based society, all learning needs to be valued. Some contributors to this book reflect on how new educational systems could be created in a move away from top-down authoritarian and bureaucratic management. Such open systems are seen to be more welcoming in acknowledging the importance of informal learning. Others provide practical examples of how informal learning is currently recognized. Some attention is also paid to the evaluation of informal learning. A key objective of the work presented here is to stimulate debate about the role of informal learning in knowledge-based societies and to stimulate thinking about the kind of reforms needed to create more open and more democratic school learning environments.

About time! A reference manual for youth policy from a European perspective

Author : Howard Williamson,Max Fras,Zara Lavchyan
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287191168

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About time! A reference manual for youth policy from a European perspective by Howard Williamson,Max Fras,Zara Lavchyan Pdf

A reference tool for initiating youth policy and learning about the diversity of national and international governance and about the infrastructure available for youth policy, its implementation, review and evaluation Today, we know much more about national and European youth policy, the role of research, participation of young people and monitoring and evaluation of youth policy than we did when the first Youth policy manual was published in 2009 by the EU–Council of Europe youth partnership. The concept of youth policy can be very narrowly or very broadly constructed. This volume positions youth policy in the context of public policy and reflects on the complex, cyclical nature of policy making, bringing together the results of knowledge gathering and debates central to the European agenda in the field over the last 15 years. Thematically, the manual focuses very specifically on those areas of youth policy that have been formulated and developed through European consensus-building – participation, information, volunteering, social inclusion, access to rights, youth work, mobility and digitalisation. We hope that the five parts of the manual, from the conceptual to the practical, and through a range of examples and questions for reflection, will help you to explore, understand and engage with the youth policy framework in your context, from your own perspective, and will provide you with a sense of all the stages of youth policy making. Most importantly, the manual includes a wide range of standards, tools and resources developed by and for the benefit of youth policy makers, youth work practitioners, youth researchers and young people across Europe. It is About Time! we strengthen the youth sector further to develop a new generation of positive and purposeful youth policies in Europe!

Understanding the Constructions of Identities by Young New Europeans

Author : Alistair Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315886800

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Understanding the Constructions of Identities by Young New Europeans by Alistair Ross Pdf

How do young people construct their identities in the complexity of their own country, belonging to the European Union, and being part of global society? This book is based on a unique empirical study of a thousand young people, aged between eleven and nineteen, from fifteen European countries. Covering East European states that joined the EU be