Education for Active Citizenship

Education for Active Citizenship
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By C.S. Sunal|M.E. Haas
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

A general goal for school curriculum should be facilitating students’ development of an awareness, appreciation, and understanding of key social studies concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity (National Council for the Social Studies, 1994b; National Research Council, 1996). Citizenship means active participation in community and national decision making (Barr, Barth, & Shermis, 1977; Goodman & Adler, 1985).

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