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Civic Knowledge, Civic Education, and Civic Engagement: A Summary of Recent Research

Pages 623-642 | Published online: 08 May 2007

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Elsa Camargo, Delma Ramos, Cathryn B. Bennett, Destiny Z. Talley, Terry Chavis & Brandi Kennedy. (2024) Making the Nuevo South home: Latinx college students’ forms of resistance to Southern epistemology. Journal of Latinos and Education 23:2, pages 659-675.
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Trinh Hoang Hong Hue & Milan Tung-Wen Sun. (2022) Democratic Governance: Examining the Influence of Citizen Participation on Local Government Performance in Vietnam. International Journal of Public Administration 45:1, pages 4-22.
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Mark J. Chin. (2021) The Effect of English Learner Reclassification on Student Achievement and Noncognitive Outcomes. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 14:1, pages 57-89.
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Ewa A. Golebiowska. (2020) The mechanisms behind the relationship between education and political tolerance. Politics, Groups, and Identities 8:5, pages 937-956.
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Jakob Ohme, Franziska Marquart & Lisa Merete Kristensen. (2020) School lessons, social media and political events in a get-out-the-vote campaign: successful drivers of political engagement among youth?. Journal of Youth Studies 23:7, pages 886-908.
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Nevbahar Ertas. (2020) How Public, Nonprofit, and Private-Sector Employees Access Volunteer Roles. Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing 32:2, pages 105-123.
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Cullen C. Merritt, Sheila Suess Kennedy & Morgan D. Farnworth. (2020) The Civic Dimension of School Voucher Programs. Public Integrity 22:2, pages 154-169.
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Daniel H. Bowen & Brian Kisida. (2020) Never Again: The Impact of Learning About the Holocaust on Civic Outcomes. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 13:1, pages 67-91.
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Michael Neureiter. (2019) Evaluating the effects of immigrant integration policies in Western Europe using a difference-in-differences approach. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45:15, pages 2779-2800.
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Julia Marin Hellwege. (2019) Left to Their Own Devices: A Student-Centered Approach to Civic Engagement. Journal of Political Science Education 15:4, pages 474-497.
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Mariska Kleemans, Gabi Schaap & Mitchel Suijkerbuijk. (2018) Getting Youngsters Hooked on News. Journalism Studies 19:14, pages 2108-2125.
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William R. Watson, Ji Hyun Yu & Sunnie L. Watson. (2018) Perceived attitudinal learning in a self-paced versus fixed-schedule MOOC. Educational Media International 55:2, pages 170-181.
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Sunnie Lee Watson. (2017) Facilitating attitudinal learning in an animal behaviour and welfare MOOC. Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning 32:3, pages 262-278.
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Frank Reichert. (2016) Who is the engaged citizen? Correlates of secondary school students’ concepts of good citizenship. Educational Research and Evaluation 22:5-6, pages 305-332.
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Toby Bolsen, Michael Evans & Anna McCaghren Fleming. (2016) A Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Approaches to Teaching Introduction to American Government. Journal of Political Science Education 12:3, pages 302-317.
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Judith Bessant, Rys Farthing & Rob Watts. (2016) Co-designing a civics curriculum: young people, democratic deficit and political renewal in the EU. Journal of Curriculum Studies 48:2, pages 271-289.
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Juan Carlos Castillo, Daniel Miranda, Macarena Bonhomme, Cristián Cox & Martín Bascopé. (2015) Mitigating the political participation gap from the school: the roles of civic knowledge and classroom climate. Journal of Youth Studies 18:1, pages 16-35.
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Nathan Manning & Kathy Edwards. (2014) Does civic education for young people increase political participation? A systematic review. Educational Review 66:1, pages 22-45.
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SheilaSuess Kennedy. (2013) Civic Literacy and Ethical Public Service. Public Integrity 15:4, pages 403-414.
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JohnT. Stroup, Hadley Bunting, Kyle Dodson, Miriam Horne & Julian Portilla. (2013) Promoting a Deliberative and Active Citizenry: Developing Traditional First Year College Student Political Engagement. College Teaching 61:4, pages 116-126.
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Nevbahar Ertas. (2013) Formal and Informal Social Participation of Public, Non-Profit, and Private Employees. International Journal of Public Administration 36:8, pages 578-587.
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Wing On Lee, Kerry John Kennedy & Magdalena Mo Ching Mok. (2013) Civic learning and its contexts. Educational Psychology 33:3, pages 233-239.
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RicardoS. Morse. (2012) Citizens Academies. Public Performance & Management Review 36:1, pages 79-101.
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Ellen Claes & Ellen Quintelier. (2009) Newspapers in Education: a critical inquiry into the effects of using newspapers as teaching agents. Educational Research 51:3, pages 341-363.
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