Sentences with phrase «differences of civic engagement»

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In terms of civic engagement and formal volunteering in 2010 - 2011, the figures show almost no difference in participation between those with no religion (56 %) and Christians (58 %)-- a continuing trend since 2007.

«Siury exemplifies well the social commitment of students in the International Education Policy Program who understand that leadership that makes a difference combines academic excellence with civic engagement.»

In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solution.

In testing whether adolescents attending schools with a strong civic climate were more likely to envision themselves as active citizens, I control for differences in a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagement.