نتایج جستجو برای: civic
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Using data from an original two-wave panel survey of California high school students and a two-wave panel survey of high school students in Chicago, we find that different pedagogical approaches influence different forms of civic and political engagement. Specifically, controlling for prior levels of engagement and demographic factors, we find that open discussion of societal issues promotes en...
This paper describes a cooperative MANET protocol dedicated to intelligent transport systems, named CIVIC (Communication Inter Véhicule Intelligente et Coopérative). The CIVIC protocol is an auto-configuration inter-vehicle communication protocol, which supports adhoc and infrastructure networks, contains reactive and proactive routing components, and adapts different wireless standards. It is ...
The characteristics of current society and the interest about citizenship education in the context of lifelong learning are essential for a study that aims to describe and understand the development of social and civic competence in the educational field. A Delphi study can make a proposal in which the social and civic competence is composed of 89 items organised into five areas: knowledge, ski...
CIViC is an expert crowdsourced knowledgebase for Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer (www.civicdb.org) describing the therapeutic, prognostic, and diagnostic relevance of inherited and somatic variants of all types. CIViC is committed to open source code, open access content, public application programming interfaces (APIs), and provenance of supporting evidence to allow for the tran...
“Software is eating the world”, says Marc Andreessen, with data as its fuel and its by-product. Inspired by the success of various open movements, data is now getting open as well. At the forefront, governments and cities are releasing a trove of civic data with promises of better – data-driven, collaborative and participatory – forms of governance. In this paper, we provide a definition of Ope...
This mixed methods study investigated the impact of learning about homelessness on the civic development of privileged adolescents. Pre–post surveys, classroom observations, and qualitative interviews revealed that the participating adolescents developed a more complex understanding of the factors that contribute to homelessness; however, this deeper understanding of homelessness was not accomp...
Civic education (CE) was extremely popular in the 1990s as a method for promoting democracy, especially expounded by USAID, which spent between USD 30 and 50 million per year on civic education between 1990 and 2005 (Finkel, 2011). Resultantly, much seminal work on CE is from this time period, with far fewer projects and evaluations conducted recently. Some evaluations only present anecdotal ev...
A new form of scholarship, the scholarship of engagement, is emerging as a distinct set of practices within the general movement toward civic renewal in American higher education. This essay defines the core aspects of the scholarship of engagement and creates a taxonomy of five forms of engaged scholarship. Using a problem-driven, pluralistic approach, this essay concludes that the new forms o...
This project asks the question: Can libraries act as places for promoting civic engagement through the use of socially and culturally significant documentaries? In this initiative, documentaries are screened at public libraries throughout the United States and are followed by post-screening discussions. Coordinating librarians 10 and audience attendees are surveyed to uncover the outcomes of ea...
Social capital of today's civic society diminishes, which sounds as a paradox. In the paper we briefly evaluate reasons behind these trends first in order to evaluate, how could information technology, process reengineering, followed with engagement of social software help in the current crisis of civic engagement, volunteerism and social relations in general, with specific focus on non-governm...
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