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National policies on education for democratic citizenship in the Americas: Analytic report
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48-page PDF report with the goal of "address[ing] the gap in the literature on national policies in citizenship education in the Americas, providing an initial âmappingâ of these policies, at the formal and non-formal levels. To that end, the analysis focuses on national policies and standards, the school curriculum within which citizenship education is embedded, places and age levels where citizenship education occurs, and the extent to which citizenship programs are evaluated. Twenty-five countries participated in this study. Selected demographic characteristics of the countries are reported in Appendix 1."
... Although this report shows that several countries have adopted national policies and standards to advocate for democratic citizenship education, not all of them have effectively implemented them, and unfortunately, Ecuador is one of those countries. Even though it has a national policy and educational standards to provide education for democratic citizenship, it has experienced some challenges in their implementation, training, and monitoring (Amadeo and Cepeda, 2008). ...
... Although having that specific citizenship curriculum from K-12 seems rigorous and progressive on paper, its implementation is complicated and not universal. As Amadeo and Cepeda (2008) highlight in their National Policies on Education for Democratic Citizenship in the Americas' study, Ecuadorian authorities recognized that applying the established citizenship curriculum was challenging since they were not able to provide effective methodological support due to some financing and continuity problems. This shows how policy makers often offer quick solutions to prioritize and approve a progressive curricular plan for providing relevant citizenship education without even having a complete implementation process. ...
Contents Developing Metacognition: Leveraging a Spiral Curriculum to Enhance Strategy-Learning Programming • Matthew Brooks, Educational Psychology A Thematic Analysis of Faculty Advice for Doctoral Students • Alexa Yunes-Koch, Katie Johnson, Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education Emotional and Attentional Regulation: Impact of Trauma and Journal Writing • Jody-Ann Coore, Educational Psychology From Active Learning Trigonometry to Lecture-Oriented Calculus: Student Interactions • Kelsey Quaisley, Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education Maximizing Student Citizenship Education • Consuelo Gallardo, Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education Masked or Unmasked? The Impact of Hidden Facial Expressions on Interpretations of Emotion • Justin Andersson, Educational Psychology, Lauren Thayer, Special Education and Communication Disorders Bridging Metacognition and Executive Function: Enhancing Metacognition Via Development of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex • Matthew Brooks, Educational Psychology
... Although this report shows that several countries have adopted national policies and standards to advocate for democratic citizenship education, not all of them have effectively implemented them, and unfortunately, Ecuador is one of those countries. Even though it has a national policy and educational standards to provide education for democratic citizenship, it has experienced some challenges in their implementation, training, and monitoring (Amadeo and Cepeda, 2008). ...
... Although having that specific citizenship curriculum from K-12 seems rigorous and progressive on paper, its implementation is complicated and not universal. As Amadeo and Cepeda (2008) highlight in their National Policies on Education for Democratic Citizenship in the Americas' study, Ecuadorian authorities recognized that applying the established citizenship curriculum was challenging since they were not able to provide effective methodological support due to some financing and continuity problems. This shows how policy makers often offer quick solutions to prioritize and approve a progressive curricular plan for providing relevant citizenship education without even having a complete implementation process. ...
Increasingly, global statistics have pointed out that young citizens are disengaged from democratic participation. This has captured public attention and led some countries to start creating educational policies as an attempt to implement educational citizenship programs to prepare young citizens to be active participants in a democratic society. Nevertheless, little is known regardless of the impact of those programs on democratic countries like Ecuador and the role of active citizenship at the educational level. It has led Ecuadorian younger population to avoid engaging in active social and political participation. Therefore, some national policies, international reports, specific topics related to citizenship education, and classroom practices will be analyzed in this literature review. The main goal is to invite not only policymakers but also teachers to increase their awareness about citizenship aspects so that they can truly invite students to maximize student citizenship education and active participation.
The combined challenges of poverty and governance urgently require active, politically informed and educated citizens, aware of their capacity to influence community events and government, at all levels.