CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Balea, Elena Cristina |
|---|---|
| Title | Conceptions of the Good Citizen and Political Attitudes of Children |
| Summary | This thesis endeavors to make a contribution to the literature on childhood political socialization, by analyzing the effects of a specially designed curriculum on children‟s political efficacy and conceptions of citizenship in a novel context, Romania, and on a less researched age group, i.e., middle school students (5th and 7th grade). Making use of Westheimer and Kahne‟s distinction between personally responsible, participatory and justice-oriented citizenship, an experimental design using pre and post surveys was employed in order to examine the impact on students‟ conceptions of citizenship and sense of internal efficacy of a civic curriculum designed in accordance with two different ideals of the good citizens: participatory and justice-oriented |
| Supervisor | Levente Littvay |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/balea_elena-cristina.pdf |
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