Fostering Civic Engagement: Empowering Students through Citizenship Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2024) | Viewed by 1630
Special Issue Editors
Interests: democratic citizen participation; sustainable development
Interests: economic policy; public policies to promote social responsibility and entrepreneurship
Interests: citizen participation; new media, particularly the Internet and social networks; cultural industries, especially the video game industry and serious games
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the most important goals that should be set in schools and universities is the promotion of civic engagement among young people. This requires conveying knowledge, enhancing skills and developing positive attitudes in students towards citizen participation, creating awareness of their important role in finding solutions to the different problems faced by the countries of our environment and their institutions.
Civic competence results from a complex combination of different learning outcomes based on democratic values, necessary for the person to become an active citizen.
This Special Issue seeks to compile articles that focus their research on how young people can acquire this civic competence and what types of problems can be analyzed in the classroom so that students get involved, exchange ideas and practices, learn to document themselves and make motivated decisions. The best strategies are those that achieve greater commitment and the assumption of responsibilities, both from teachers and students. In addition, articles that describe the commitment of schools and universities to innovative practices in this area are also interesting.
The articles can be based on general empirical studies or on specific case studies and analyses that develop a solid theoretical framework that offers an extensive treatment of the literature and a reflection on the subject. This Special Issue is intended to reflect a variety of articles focusing on different educational and learning contexts and with different approaches.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Lidia E. Santana-Vega
Dr. Olga González-Morales
Dr. Milena Trenta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- civic education
- citizen participation
- human rights
- sustainable development and objectives of the 2030 agenda
- social responsibility of enterprises and consumers
- innovative practices in schools and universities
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