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Wood, Rosalyn Black Linking Literacy, Citizenship Education and Persuasive Advocacy Peter Brett, Damon Thomas Finding a Place in the Discourse: Film, Literature and the Process of Becoming Politically Subject Jane McDonnell Social Media and the Idle No More Movement: Citizenship, Activism and Dissent in Canada Jennifer Tupper The Prediction of Political Competencies by Political Action and Political Media Consumption Frank Reichert Political Participation and Social Media as Public Pedagogy: Young People Political Conversations and Education Erik Andersson, Maria Olson When Parents United: A Historical Examination of the Changing Civic Landscape of American Urban Education Reform Esa Syeed, Pedr o Noguer a Journal of Social Science Education ©JSSE 2014 Volume 13, Number 4, Winter 2014 ISSN 1618–5293 Masthead Editors: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Hedtke, Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology Prof. Ian Davies, PhD, Department of Educational Studies, University of York Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Tilman Grammes, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Educational Science Prof. Isabel Menezes, PhD, University of Porto, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Prof. Dr. Birgit Weber, University of Cologne, Faculty of Human Sciences Editors of this Issue: Prof. Ian Davies, PhD, Department of Educational Studies, University of York Dr. Mark Evans, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Dr. Andrew Peterson, School of Education, University of South Australia Editorial Assistant: Simon Niklas Hellmich Editorial Office: Journal of Social Science Education Bielefeld University Faculty of Sociology Postbox 100 131 33501 Bielefeld Germany E-Mail: [email protected] http://jsse.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php/jsse/index Editorial Board: Prof. Mehmet Acikalin, PhD, Instanbul, Turkey; Prof. Dr. Helena C. 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Members of the JSSE team are the editors, the editorial assistant, the technical staff, and the editorial board. http://www.sowi-online.de Journal of Social Science Education ©JSSE 2014 Volume 13, Number 4, Winter 2014 ISSN 1618–5293 Contents Editorial Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends 2-10 Ian Davies, Mark Evans, Andrew Peterson Special Topic Articles Encouraging Classroom Discussion 11-18 Edda Sant-Obiols Is Student Participation in School Governance a “Mission impossible”? 19-34 Yan Wing Leung, Timothy Wai Wa Yuen, Eric Chi Keung Cheng, Joseph Kui Foon Chow Empowering Teaching for Participatory Citizenship: Evaluating the Impact of 35-50 Alternative Civic Education Pedagogies on Civic Attitudes, Knowledge and Skills of Eight-grade Students in Mexico Fernando M. Reimers, Maria Elena Ortega, Mariali Cardenas, Armando Estrada, Emanuel Garza Performing Citizenship Down Under: Educating the Active Citizen 51-60 Bronwyn E. Wood, Rosalyn Black Linking Literacy, citizenship education and persuasive advocacy 61-72 Peter Brett, Damon Thomas Finding a Place in the Discourse: Film, Literature and the Process of Becoming 73-81 Politically Subject Jane McDonnell Social Media and the Idle No More Movement: Citizenship, Activism and Dissent in 82-89 Canada Jennifer Tupper The Prediction of Political Competencies by Political Action and Political Media 90-109 Consumption Frank Reichert Political Participation and Social Media as Public Pedagogy: Young People Political 110-121 Conversations and Education Erik Andersson, Maria Olson When Parents United: A Historical Examination of the Changing Civic Landscape of 122-139 American Urban Education Reform Esa Syeed, Pedro Noguera Book Reviews Review of the Book: Health Activism: Foundations and Strategies, written by Glenn 140 Laverack Ian Davies Review of the Book: Educating for Democratic Consciousness, edited by Ali A. Abdi 141-142 and Paul R. Carr Gary W.J. Pluim 1 Journal of Social Science Education Volume 13, Number 4, Winter 2014 DOI 10.2390/jsse-v13-i4-1412 Ian Davies, Mark Evans, Andrew Peterson Civic Activism, Engagement and Education: Issues and Trends Keywords Education, activism, engagement, citizenship activism and to what extent does the experience of activism educate? It is possible that these simply stated 1 Introduction questions may reveal relationships between activism and In this issue of the Journal of Social Science Education we education that are unidirectional and straightforward but explore the connections (explicitly or otherwise) we suspect that there will be significant uncertainties between civic activism, engagement and education. We and complexities. We hope that this edition of JSSE will seek better to understand the educational outcomes of make a small contribution to clarifying some of the issues civic activism and engagement and the interplay bet- relevant to these matters. ween young people’s involvement and the development When we started work on this special issue we were of knowledge, skills and attitudes that allow active motivated by the desire to know more about the follo- participation in civil society. Crucially, we are interested wing key questions: in identifying and highlighting the foci, forms, levels and pedagogical approaches that young people and their - What does civic activism and engagement mean to educators recognize as meaningfully encouraging critical young people, professionals, policy makers and and creative engagement with young people’s civic others in education? activism and engagement. As such, we are concerned - What foci, forms and levels of civic activism and with 2 interlocking areas: the relevance of education to engagement may be seen? Are there patterns across those who become actively involved in society and the groups (related to age, ethnicity, social class etc.) educative role of activism to those who are so engaged. - What factors appear to support and/or hinder civic Simply, to what extent does civic education lead to activism and engagement? - What pedagogical/assessment approaches do young Ian Davies is based at the University of York where is people and their educators recognize as meaningfully professor and deputy head of the Department of encouraging critical and creative engagement with Education, director of the Graduate School in young people’s civic activism