English Language & Civics Education Online Resource Guide |
Global Trends in Civic Education | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Address: www.civnet.org/journal/issue1/patrick.htm Publication date: 1997 Cost: free Description: This six-page article by John J. Patrick, director of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, explores nine trends with broad potential for influencing civic education in the constitutional democracies of the world. For example, trend one is the conceptualizaton of civics education in terms of three interrelated components: civic knowledge, cognitive skills, and civic virtues. |
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