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CIRCLE intends to commission comprehensive scholarly articles
summarizing the state of knowledge on various subfields
of interest to us. These articles will be posted here.)
In the meantime, CIRCLE recommends the following articles
for their breadth and rigor:
Shelley Billig, "Research
on K-12 School-Based Service-Learning: The Evidence Builds"
(draft version). Final version printed in: Phi Delta Kappan,
Volume 81, No. 9, May 2000. www.pdkintl.org.
Carnegie Corporation of New York and CIRCLE, The
Civic Mission of Schools (2003), a detailed report
on k-12 civic education with 57 authors/endorsers.
Constance A. Flanagan and Nakesha Faison, "Youth
Civic Development: Implications of Research for Social
Policy and Programs," Social Policy Report.
2001. vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 3-16.
William A. Galston, "Political
Knowledge, Political Engagement, and Civic Education,"
reprinted with permission from the
Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 4, ©
2001 Annual Reviews. www.AnnualReviews.org.
Cynthia Gibson, "From
Inspiration to Participation: A Review of Perspectives
on Youth Civic Engagement" (The Grantmaker
Forum on Community and National Service, 2001).
The Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
(Matthew Calvert, Shepherd Zeldin, and Amy Weisenbach),
Youth Involvement
for Community, Organizational, and Youth Development:
Directions for Research, Evaluation, and Practice.
Richard G. Niemi and Chris Chapman, The
Civic Development of 9th- Through 12th-Grade Students
in the United States: 1996 (National Center for
Education Statistics, Statistical Analysis Report: 1996)
Wendy M. Rahn and John E. Transue, "Social Trust
and Value Change: The Decline of Social Capital in American
Youth, 1976-1995, Political Psychology, vol. 19,
no. 3, 1998, pp. 545-565. "Both aggregate time series
correlations and an individual-level model show that the
rapid rise of materialistic value orientations that occurred
among American youth in the 1970s and 1980s severely eroded
levels of social trust." (CIRCLE has requested permission
to reprint this article here.)
Judith Torney-Purta, Carole L. Hahn, and Jo-Ann
Amadeo, "Principles of Subject Specific Instruction
in Education for Citizenship," in Jere Brophy, ed.,
Subject-Specific Instructional Methods and Activities
(Advances in Research on Teaching, vol. 8), Elsevier Science
Inc., 2001, pp. 373-410.
National Commission on Service-Learning, Learning
in Deed: The Power of Service Learning for American Schools.
Jon Zaff and Erik Michelson, Child Trends' "What
Works" page on Civic Engagement.
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