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The relationship between secondary education and civic development: Results from two field experiments with inner-city minorities.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The relationship between secondary education and civic development: Results from two field experiments with inner-city minorities./
Author:	Phillips, John Anthony.
Description:	276 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3831.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3109446

The relationship between secondary education and civic development: Results from two field experiments with inner-city minorities.
Phillips, John Anthony.

The relationship between secondary education and civic development: Results from two field experiments with inner-city minorities. - 276 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3831.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2003.

By and large, scholars of electoral behavior and civil society consider education to be the key predictor of civic participation. Indeed, civic education is held to be a fundamental institution of all deliberative democracies. Yet after decades of empirical research, we still know little about the causal mechanisms through which education fosters political participation, and more generally, "good American citizens."Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

The relationship between secondary education and civic development: Results from two field experiments with inner-city minorities.
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520 $a By and large, scholars of electoral behavior and civil society consider education to be the key predictor of civic participation. Indeed, civic education is held to be a fundamental institution of all deliberative democracies. Yet after decades of empirical research, we still know little about the causal mechanisms through which education fosters political participation, and more generally, "good American citizens."
520 $a Recently, scholars and educators have suggested that practical lessons about local politics and participation in extracurricular activities---collectively referred to as service learning---are the most promising educational tools for enhancing civic development. I use two field experiments with high school students to test whether these activities actually affect civic knowledge, attitudes and behavior. The primary advantage of an experimental approach is that it creates the conditions necessary for unbiased causal inference. Accordingly, my results speak to certain issues of cause and effect in civic education with greater certainty than previous research.
520 $a This study is additionally novel in the measures it uses to gauge civic engagement. Many scholars have characterized minority students as possessing less political knowledge and participating less in civic organizations than their white counterparts. These findings may partially reflect the inability of researchers to measure a broad spectrum of extra-electoral behavior in urban areas. To test this hypothesis, I incorporate more comprehensive and culturally sensitive indicators of civic involvement than those used by prior research.
520 $a Contrary to the hopes of recent theorists, my findings show the effects of local service learning to be small and elusive. On the other hand, my refined measures of participation reveal some previously neglected, but potentially inspiring sources of civic engagement in the ghetto. Only time and future experimentation will tell whether these popular activities represent a more successful means of mobilizing urban youth for political activism.
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