Practice to Research: Leveraging an International Comparative Study of Civic and Citizenship Education in Costa Rica, Myanmar, and the United States

• In Event: 72.048 - Roundtable Session 33
  In Roundtable Session: 72.048-13 - Exploring International Education

Abstract

This presentation reports on one part of a transnational field study investigating multifaceted components of teaching and learning civic and citizenship education in the K-16 systems of Costa Rica, Myanmar, and the United States. Literature detailing what needs to be done to better prepare students for a globalized twenty-first century life is available, yet a gap exists in understanding how individual educators use civic and citizenship education curricula to meet the needs of contemporary learners. A multi-sited ethnographic design was used with international field sites in Mandalay Myanmar and San Jose Costa Rica. Findings are presented as a preliminary international comparative model of teaching civics and citizenship education.

Authors

• Amy Roberts, University of Wyoming

• Joan Kay James, University of Wyoming