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[Educating the Good Citizen] Sustainable Development & Educating for Civic Character ...: delineation between character education and civic character.  Being somewhat familiar with the ideals of character education, I found it to be a sound foundation in which to build their conception of civic character.  I was particularly enamored with their citing of, among others, George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson and the vision that these colonial leaders attempted to offer in playing their role in the creation of this country.  Berkowitz, Althof, and Jones describe the sentiments of our forefathers as important, stating “an enlightened citizenry is indispensible for the proper functioning of the republic.  Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight”.  I have long wondered if this view was pure in its infancy and has become tainted by more contemporary examples of wealth, power, greed, and corruption or if the world has long turned at the watch and warrant of the Western powers and this is simply another sales pitch sold to and bought by the masses.  The development of civic character (if our aim is true democracy) would seem to be steeped in the tenants of Jefferson’s “aristocracy of virtue and talent” rather than the “aristocracy of wealth”

[The Center for Social Media] News from the Future of Public Media -- Center for Social Media at ...: Wendell Cochran and Chuck Lewis, directors of IRW, have taken data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation about every bank in the nation and calculated the amount of troubled loans and foreclosed property it had on its books at the end of the year.

[Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies] Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies » Blog Archive » GCPE ...: Therefore, upon my return from the 2006 research trip, I initiated the Burundi Schools Project which seeks donations of bilingual English-French dictionaries, laptop computers, and other educational materials to benefit Burundi schools. When I returned to Burundi in 2007, thanks to the generosity of friends and colleagues from George Mason University and surrounding communities, I was able to provide about 1,000 dictionaries to five schools.

[IZA Discussion Papers] Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to ...: for area-level education in the General Social Survey, Dee (2004) finds that an additional year of schooling increases civic engagement through voting, newspaper readership, and support for free speech. Milligan, Moretti and Oreopoulos ( 2004) also find a .

[Left Turns?] Transcript of Workshop: The past 10 or 15 years have witnessed a greater polarization between those countries with consolidating party systems (Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and even Mexico where the last electoral conflict was resolved institutionally not on the streets) and those where party systems are inchoate and in some cases eroding democracy (Colombia 1991, Peru 1990, Venezuela 1993, Bolivia mid 1990s, and Ecuador). In the first context, Left-wing parties have been “contaminated” by systemic features such as organized party competition, stronger links with civil society groups, and predictable voting patterns and policy preferences.

[Engaged Youth] Engaged Youth » Open Thread for the Civic Learning Online Research ...: These Russian postings resulted from a delegation of scholars and practitioners from various cities in Russia who visited the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement to look at our programs, They liked PSO, and began using it from afar. I think that sustaining this link would have required more local involvement with them.

[Left Turns?] Report to the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies: The papers presented in this section of the workshop addressed four issues: the ability of Left-wing politics to contextualize practices, to incorporate social citizenship into the agenda, to create budgets that respond to their constituencies, and to address criminal violence. Korovkin commented on the ways in which Arditi’s paper contextualizes Left discourses and practices, and she suggested that this is not a new issue in Latin America.

[DLIST] DLIST - Administrative policy as symbol system: Political conflict ...: Two narratives on the debates over the reclassification of "Native Hawaiians" and the addition of a "multiracial" category illustrate recent political conflicts over group identities established by state agencies. The author argues that the main explanation for administrative policy changes was the responsiveness of state agencies to political demands of significantly mobilized groups with claims to state resources.

[Creative Commons » CC News] David Bollier - Creative Commons: Ostrom went on to found the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, the Digital Library on the Commons, and the International Association for the Study of the Commons (originally the term “Common Property” was used). There are now hundreds of academics around the world who study “common pool resources,” mostly in the context of natural resources in developing countries.

[Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies] Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies » Blog Archive » GCPE ...: The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (ODIHR), together with the Association of Muslim Social Scientists in the UK (AMSS UK) and the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), intends to publish a directory containing examples of practices and initiatives in education that aim to combat intolerance against Muslims. You are invited to submit examples from your own country for inclusion in this directory.

[RISCA Weblog] Rhode Island State Council on the Arts:: Click Here For More Info. Creative Providence Studio. Educate For Lifelong Creativity: Developing creative thinking. and practice in youth. for 21st century. global citizenship. March 24, 9am - 12pm. New Urban Arts. 743 Westminster Street ..... Illustrators Workshop. Children browse books with printed illustrations and experiment with. different printmaking styles. March 14, 1pm - 4pm. Providence Children’s Museum. 100 South Street. Museum Admission $7.50 ...

[Alice Lovelace -- YES! magazine] Alice Lovelace -- YES! magazine: Houston Social Forum and more: He believes that if we work congruent to what is happening we can integrate that energy into the social forum process. Because what we are seeing today is a movement set in motion by the people, he believes the energy will push other social and political movements to become more active.

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