Tag Archives: community participation

Community-based Research Methods – Putting Ideas into Action

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

This article explores how we can more fully engage our students in research and social problems by creating community-based research methods courses. I describe a course I created in which students learned qualitative research methods and then conducted the majority … Continue reading →

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New Schools, New Knowledge, New Teachers: Creating the Citizen School

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Conservative modernization is the result of a tense and sometimes contradictory blend of four kinds of reforms in teacher education and in educational policy and practice in general — neoliberal market-based reforms, neo-conservative reforms involving strong central cultural authority, authoritarian … Continue reading →

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Building bridging Social Capital in a Divided Society: the role of Participatory Citizenship Education

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Participatory citizenship education has been highlighted as a strategy to promote social cohesion in divided societies whereby collaborations with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and inter-school links have been proposed as tools to improve social networks between schools and communities. This article … Continue reading →

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