52.038 - Citizenship Education: A Comparative Analysis of Secondary School Students' Achievement in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session is aimed at describing and analyzing the approaches taken by three countries to educate young adolescents for citizenship. To do so, it explores how differences in policy, curriculum, and educational teachers’ practices, affect students’ involvement in civic issues. Three papers will be presented. The first one focuses on the differences in civic knowledge obtained by Chilean Student’s in the ICSS (2009) explained by variations of socioeconomic status and teachers’ educational practices in schools. The second one, addresses the relationship between school climate, attitudes toward violence and civic engagement of Colombian students. The last paper analyses Civic Education in Mexico, and how theories of social capital and informed social reflection can explain Mexican results in the ICCS (2009).

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Local Contexts of Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Benilde Garcia-Cabrero, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Papers

• Civic Education in Chile: The Contribution of Teachers' Practices to Civic Knowledge Among Secondary Education Students - Ernesto Treviño, Universidad Diego Portales

• The Effects of School Climate on the Citizenship Competencies of Young Colombian Students - Silvia Diazgranados, Harvard University

• Social Capital Versus Informed Social Reflection: Evaluating Two Theoretical Frameworks of Civic Engagement - Benilde Garcia-Cabrero, National Autonomous University of Mexico; María Guadalupe Pérez-Martínez; Andres Sandoval-Hernandez, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement

Discussants

• Robert L. Selman, Harvard University

• Wiel M. Veugelers, University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht