Enhancing Young People's Civic Responsibility: Action Civics in Three Contexts

• In Event: Roundtable Session 34
  In Roundtable Session: Influences of Inquiry on Secondary Students' Learning in the Social Studies

Abstract

This study presents three iterations of Action Civics in three unique contexts. This model of civic education encourages teachers and students to engage in democratic action via technology and social networking. Action Civics is experiential as the learner investigates, inquires, and develops solutions to community problems and practices social responsibility.

Authors

• Brooke Blevins, Baylor University

• Karon Nicol LeCompte, Baylor University

• Sunny Wells, Baylor University