Images of America: What youth do know about the United States.

Autor/in	Cornbleth, Catherine
Titel	Images of America: What youth do know about the United States.
Quelle	In: American educational research journal, 39 (2002) 2, S. 519-552Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 35
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312; 1935-1011
DOI	10.3102/00028312039002519
Schlagwörter	Wissen; Gesellschaft; Einstellung (Psy); Selbsteinschätzung; Gesellschaft; Schüler; Wissen; USA; Selbsteinschätzung; Amerikanistik; Schüler; Amerikanistik; Geschichte (Histor); USA
Abstract	Interviews with a diverse group of juniors and seniors from three secondary schools in the northeastern United States revealed substantial agreement in their image of America. Three themes predominated: inequity associateed with race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability; freedom including rights and opportunites; and diversity based on race ethnicity, culture and geography. Three additional themes were voiced by at least one third of the students: America as better than other nations, progress and the American Dream. Crosscutting these themes were a sense of individualism or personalization and an incipient critique and/or activism expressed by more than 30% of the students. Sources of or influences on student´s images of America also were investigated as were changes over the times. Although not overly positive, what students do know about the United States is both realistic and supportive of the nation-state. There are, however, grounds for concern insofar as the major themes about which students agree play out differently for different individuals and groups, masking deep societal tensions and fissures. (DIPF/orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2003_(CD)