A Study on Student Participation in Enriched Critical Citizenship Education About the COVID-19 Pandemic

• In Event: Rethinking Civic Engagement and Education: Identities, Controversies, and Critical Citizenship

Abstract

In this study, we explore whether high school students who conducted local history research about the effects of the pandemic in their community could demonstrate affective and cognitive aspects of enriched critical civics education (ECCE). Major findings indicate that students can display ECCE through analysis of how the pandemic impacted their 1) knowledge construction of contexts, 2) development of skills when discerning multiple perspectives, 3) identifying values of a community, and 4) raising dispositional awareness to taking informed action on civic matters.

Authors

• Katherine A. Perrotta, Mercer University

• Katlynn T. Cross, Mercer University