Fostering Students' Civic Skills: Education for Sustainable Democracy

Authors

Atakan Ata, Bahcesehir UniversityFollow

Abstract

This qualitative study explored factors that supported teachers in their efforts to promote students’ critiquing, communicating, and collaborating skills. Despite the various challenges that public schools face today, they are most likely the very institutions to play a critical role in individuals’ civic skills development. Individual in-depth interviews were the primary method used to understand the participants’ perspectives on instruction and the factors that foster students’ civic skills. Factors that supported the participants in their efforts to promote civic skills among their students were found to be teacher collaboration, planning, and teacher motivation. Details and the implications of the findings were discussed.

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Recommended Citation

Ata, Atakan (2019) "Fostering Students' Civic Skills: Education for Sustainable Democracy," Georgia Educational Researcher: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 7.
DOI: 10.20429/ger.2019.160107
Available at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gerjournal/vol16/iss1/7