Finally, I again take into account whether the individual respondent endorsed voting as an essential
component of good citizenship in answering the question used to gauge the school's civic climate in 1965.
Next, focusing on the
development of good citizenship skills, we helped the staff understand that discipline implies teaching punishment most often creates negativity.
Perhaps most critically, I also take into account whether each individual endorsed voting as a
sign of good citizenship.
In the 1930s, John Dewey argued that schools should provide opportunities for students to engage in democracy and practice the
tenets of good citizenship.
It is the very
foundation of good citizenship [and] the principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment.
Greenawalt concedes that citizens of a secular liberal state have a legal right to vote their religious convictions, but he is more concerned with when and whether they ought to exercise self - restraint in the
interests of good citizenship.
Men and women nurtured in Protestant churches during the flowering of the American Dream long for a return to a time when all Americans seemed to share their
vision of good citizenship and family life.
Ruggie's task for the UN was not only to try to pin down the issues, but also to find ways to help corporations to recognise that they ultimately had a vested interested in creating and abiding by
codes of good citizenship.
Imagine a teacher is introducing fourth - grade students to the
concept of good citizenship and volunteerism during a social studies unit.
At the same time, American education has a deep responsibility to pass on to the next generation the essential
elements of good citizenship and mastery of the basics as a stepping stone to more advanced skills.
All else being equal, endorsing voting as a
mark of good citizenship boosted anticipated engagement by about one - eighth of a standard deviation - a slightly larger impact than resulted from an increase in parents» education of one standard deviation.
As a result, the percentage of students in each high school who endorse voting as a component
of good citizenship varies widely, ranging from 46 to 85 percent (with an average of 70 percent) across the 77 schools in the sample.
What matters is that an adolescent's community, defined in this case as the high school, is populated with a high percentage of peers who express their belief that voting is an
indicator of good citizenship.
In other words, my analysis isolates the effect of being surrounded by others who see voting as a component
of good citizenship regardless of the individual's own expressed sense of civic duty.
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stewards of good citizenship.
Let's engage students in cognitive apprenticeships, help them practice the
tenets of good citizenship, and encourage them to construct their own understanding of the world.
Wherever you draw the line between fiction and nonfiction, remember the basic
rules of good citizenship: Do not re-create incidents and characters who never existed; do not write to do harm to innocent victims; do not forget your own story, but while considering your struggle and the heights of your achievements, think repeatedly about how your story will affect and relate to your reader.
It is simply not clear how to measure empirically whether students have developed the qualities that Macedo sees as
traits of good citizenship.
The beauty of this measure is that it relies on the students» initiative to identify voting as a
component of good citizenship and avoids the problem of having everyone reflexively endorse voting as a normative expectation.
Given the tools available, we have more opportunities to engage students in cognitive apprenticeships, provide them with opportunities to practice the tenets
of good citizenship, and encourage them to construct their own understanding of the world.
Impressively, attending the school with the strongest civic climate (where 85 percent of students listed voting as a component
of good citizenship) rather than the school with the weakest civic climate (where 46 percent chose voting) increased anticipated participation by a quarter of a standard deviation, or by about twice the effect of the individual student's having listed voting as a component of good citizenship.
All else being equal, a typical individual who attended the school with the largest percentage of students identifying voting as a component
of good citizenship was 14 percentage points more likely to vote than the person who attended schools with the lowest percentage of students identifying voting as a civic duty.
Sexual desire doesn't play by the same rules
of good citizenship that maintain peace and contentment in the social relations between partners.