Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2021

Publication Title

Citizenship, Social and Economics Education

Volume

20

Issue

3

Pages

159-180

Publisher Name

SAGE Publications

Abstract

Critical civic engagement (CCE) is a pedagogical framework for civic education in urban settings. CCE as a pedagogical approach engages student lived experience, develops critical thinking, and facilitates informed civic action projects. In this phenomenological study of teachers in four urban high schools in a large urban school district, the author seeks to understand how teachers experience the enactment of CCE elements in schools with majority African American or Latinx student populations. The author argues that CCE practices can and should lead to the development of civic identity as a critical outcome for students in contrast to more formal measures of academic achievement. Civic identity is the foundation upon with engagement in public life is built. The study suggests that the enactment of CCE elements provides a powerful learning and identity formation experience for students and a pedagogical process that inspires teachers and their student-centered practices.

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Author Posting © The Author, 2021. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of SAGE Publications for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, Volume 20, Issue 3, December 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/20471734211050298

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