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After 1994 efforts were made to embed democracy. The focus was on policy and institution-building. What was missing was ensuring all South Africans were on board.
To build a political culture that supports democracy in South Africa, civic education needs to move beyond voter education.
In Uganda, young people’s knowledge of national political institutions, and on how they would claim and advocate for their rights as citizens, was remarkably low.
Young voters are important to the continuity of democracy because voting at a young age leads to continued voting throughout life. This year more than most, they’ll have a hard time getting started.
The idea that a small payment could motivate more people to vote resurfaces regularly, but this ignores evidence that monetary incentives to induce pro-social behaviour can be counterproductive.
South Africa’s universities are detached from society because of a waning public and civic sector that once fueled the anti-apartheid struggle. Here’s what can be done.
Cyberbullying has become destructive and feels unstoppable. Here is a five-step technique for dealing with it.
Results from the latest report into civics and citizenship education show by the time students hit year ten, the majority of them have little knowledge about Australian civics and democracy.
Only about 40-45 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds turned out to vote in the 2012 election. Civic education can improve youth turnout. But civic education itself remains neglected in US schools.
Ninety-seven percent of high school seniors have studied civics in school. While they can recall facts, they are unable to apply that knowledge to current politics. Why is that?
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Tisch College Associate Dean for Research and Lincoln Filene Professor, Tufts University
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Deputy Director at CIRCLE, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Vice-Chancellor and President, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
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Senior Advisor ( Research and Communications), Australian Catholic University
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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Professor of Political Institutions, Governance and Public Policy, University of Ibadan
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Senior lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, Chair in Educational Leadership in the Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Digital Contexts, Université Laval
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Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy, Augsburg University
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Assistant Professor in Education and International Development, UCL
