The contribution of schooling to secondary-school students' citizenship outcomes across countries

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-63

  Isac, Maria Magdalena ^a,b   Maslowski, Ralf ^a   Creemers, Bert ^a   van der Werf, Greetje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

citizenship competencies; civic and citizenship education; cross national study; educational effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895905165     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2012.751035     Document Type: Article

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