Sentences with phrase «mean citizenship education»

The same goes for «political» education, if by that we mean citizenship education.

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Speaking on education in the West, the Governor noted that the downward trend in education should be worrisome due to the role of education in development and bringing enlightenment to the human mind, platform for leadership recruitment and the means for character building and good citizenship.

Although GCE is well recognized as a key dimension of education for dealing with the challenges and opportunities posed by globalization, consensus about what global citizenship means, and consequently what GCE should promote, is yet to be reached.

The production of knowledge at the heart of this market driven regime is a form of instrumental rationality that quantifies all forms of meaning, privatizes social relations, dehistoricizes memory, and substitutes training for education while reducing the obligations of citizenship to the act of consuming.

To me, global citizenship is a birthright and education must provide students with a means to embrace this identity.

On one way or another, people and institutions around the world are questioning the value and meaning of Global Citizenship Education in the current context of globalization.

Yes, transformation of our mature and complex public education system will take time, but let's not lose sight of the goal — a Regents diploma that actually means a recipient is ready for college, career and citizenship.

Danielle Allen, a professor of education and government at Harvard University and the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, writes about democracy, citizenship, and what it means to sustain an egalitarian society.

Business leaders, like education leaders, are acutely aware of what this could mean for the future of our country: Young people might be unprepared for rewarding jobs and the demands of informed citizenship, businesses may not find the talent they need to keep innovating, and the economy may stagnate with too little innovation.

Longfield said digital citizenship education would include what it means to be responsible online, how to protect your rights and how to respect those of others.

Throughout the Civil Rights era, the Latin @ community called for bilingual education, not only as a way of educating their children, but also as a «means to realize the promise of equal citizenship» (Del Valle, 1998, p. 194).

Working with educators, classroom teachers, and pre-service teachers at universities in Istanbul, Küthaya, and Izmir, he focused on global citizenship, with particular emphasis on social studies education and what global citizenship education means from a Turkish perspective.

They were also efforts to translate into law certain philosophical arguments and political commitments regarding the nature and meaning of citizenship, democracy, freedom, and education.

Speaking with blogger Marty Nemko, Gardner discusses the theory of multiple intelligences as well as his more recent investigations of higher education in the United States and the meanings of «good work, good citizenship, and ethics» today.

Legislation to protect Dreamers — including the 20,000 educators with DACA — that includes pathways to legal status or citizenship would not only increase the GDP, creating more revenue with which to improve public schools, but it would also mean that students and families across the country currently living in fear of deportation could focus on both their education and creating a better future for themselves and their communities.99