Engaging Contemporary Issues as Practice for Citizenship

Autor/inn/en	Kuhn, Deanna; Feliciano, Nicole; Kostikina, Darya
Titel	Engaging Contemporary Issues as Practice for Citizenship
Quelle	In: Social Studies, 110 (2019) 5, S.207-219 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7996
DOI	10.1080/00377996.2019.1625856
Schlagwörter	Current Events; Citizenship Education; Urban Education; Middle School Students; Student Centered Learning; Classroom Communication; Critical Thinking; Writing Assignments; Writing Achievement; Communication Skills; Essays + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktualität; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Klassengespräch; Kritisches Denken; Kommunikationsstil; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht
Abstract	How better can we prepare students for the roles awaiting them as citizens than by engaging them in addressing challenging issues of the day? We describe our experience as a researcher--practitioner partnership with this objective in a yearlong program involving academically low-performing urban middle schoolers and a student-centered instructional approach emphasizing peer-to-peer discourse. Thirty of the class's daily 45-minute social studies class periods for the year were devoted to in-depth engagement with three contemporary issues, each for 10 consecutive class sessions, thus affording students sustained practice in contemplating individually and with one another pressing issues of the day. Gains in students' written arguments as well as discourse skills are described and illustrated. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01