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Engaging young people in civic life /
The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries. Young Americans are responsive to effective outreach efforts, and this collection addresses how to best provide opportunities for enhancing civic learning and forming l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville, TN :
Vanderbilt University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries. Young Americans are responsive to effective outreach efforts, and this collection addresses how to best provide opportunities for enhancing civic learning and forming lasting civic identities. The thirteen original essays are based on research in schools and in settings beyond the schoolyard where civic life is experienced. One focus is on programs for those schools in poor communities that tend to overlook civic education. Another chapter reports on how two city governments, Hampton, Virginia, and San Francisco, have invited youth to participate on boards and in agencies. A cluster of chapters focuses on the civic education programs in Canada and Western Europe, where, as in the United States, immigration and income inequality raise challenges to civic life. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0826516505 0826516513 9780826516503 9780826516510 9780826516527 0826516521 1282297058 9781282297050 9786612297052 6612297050 |