Civic Education in the United States: Lessons for the UK

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 539-555+i+iii

  Marquette, Heather ^a   Mineshima, Dale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 10744230221     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/parlij/55.3.539     Document Type: Review

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4. M. Janowitz, op. cit., p. 35.
5. K. Beyerlein, 'Educational Elites and the Movement to Secularize Public Education: The Case of the National Educational Association', paper for the Conference on The Secular Revolutions: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life, University of North Carolina, 2001.
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16. State of Hawai'i, Content Standards for Social Studies in Public Schools of Hawaii, August 1999.
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22. Barrington School District, Curriculum Frameworks: Social Studies, 1999.
23. The State of Hawai'i working group for developing state standards for social studies in public schools was made up of educators from different disciplines of the social sciences and from different civic groups who had an interest in developing civic education, there was input from teachers.
24. State of Hawai'i, op. cit.
25. Centre for Civic Education, We the People ... The Citizen and the Constitution, http://www.civiced.org/programs.html.
26. Other details about the Close Up Foundation and its programmes can be found on their website: http://www.closeup.org.
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29. For further details about AmeriCorps, see http://www.americorps.org and http://www.nationalservice.org.
30. Further details about City Year, can be found at http://www.cityyear.org.
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32. M.S. Branson, 'What does Research on Political Attitudes and Behaviour Tell Us about the Need for Improving Education for Democracy?', Social Studies Review: Journal of the California Council for the Social Studies, January-February 2000.