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The political integration of newcomers of Latin American origin to Canada: an examination of the role and relevance of prior knowledge
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)
The purpose of this research was to map the understanding of the concept of political participation held by newcomers to Canada from countries from Spanish-speaking Latin America. The relevance of the work lies in the view ...
Building bridges of peace in a Jewish-Palestinian village in Israel: a role model for social justice and citizenship education
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)
Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam (the Hebrew and Arabic words for `Oasis of Peace') is a village that began as an intercultural experiment. There, Jews and Palestinians founded a community aimed at demonstrating the possibilities ...
La place de l'éducation à la citoyenneté et des droits de la personne dans l'enseignement au Canada et en Ontario
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)
The article explores Canadian and Ontarian perspectives on citizenship education and shows how citizenship education contributes to student awareness of the various dimensions of citizenship and the rights of individuals. ...
Relational citizenship as social networks: immigrant youth's maps of their friendships
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)
Seeking to understand what it means for immigrant youth to make new connections in a host country, we explore their networks of social relations and situate these with respect to social capital and to citizenship as a ...
La formation du citoyen : une perspective philosophique
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)
Starting from the idea that the present concern with citizenship education is a form of reminiscence of the philosophical interest of the Ancients regarding this question, this article attempts to demonstrate that the ...
Learning to teach citizenship: a lifelong learning approach
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)
Where do civics teachers learn about the content and methods of civics education? What is the impact of these learning experiences on their teaching approaches? Driven by these questions, we undertook a study with civics ...
Complexities and Contradictions: Citizenship, National Narratives, and Education in Israel
(2014-10-08)
Public school systems tend to operate as a lens into general public discourse, a way to determine how successive generations are moulded from students into citizens. History and civics curriculums are sites of history ...