Democratic Renewal through Innovations in Civic Learning

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Innovations in civic learning employ active approaches where young people engage in practices that promote democratic renewal. Acquisition of civic knowledge, dispositions, and skills can be enhanced by curriculum interventions, extracurricular programs, and events that emphasis learning by doing. This panel examines how students’ and young adults’ involvement in creative classroom instructional initiatives, innovative civic programs, and community events can foster positive orientations toward civic engagement, heighten awareness of pressing societal issues, promote civil discussion, and bridge generational gaps in participation.

Sub Unit

• Division 58: Civic Engagement

Cosponsor

• Division 10: Political Science Education

Individual Presentations

• Democracy on Two Wheels: Reimagining Streets for Kids, One Bike Bus at a Time - Ashton R. Rohmer, George Mason University

• School Participatory Budgeting: Democratic Renewal and Civic Reimagining - Daniel Schugurensky, Arizona State University; Tara Lynn Bartlett, Arizona State University

• Turning Youth Voice into Public Policy: Civic Mentoring & Democratic Renewal - James Sloam, University of London, Royal Holloway

• Connecting Classrooms to Congress - Kevin M. Esterling, University of California, Riverside; Joseph Kahne, University of California, Riverside; William Minozzi, Ohio State University

Chair

• Jyl J Josephson Rutgers University-Newark

Discussant

• Amanda Wintersieck Virginia Commonwealth University