In addition to imparting scientific knowledge, an abiding purpose of public education is to
enhance understanding of society and encourage demo-cratic attitudes in children. Article …

Western preschools and schools find it important to nurture democracy. However, in order to
succeed in nurturing democracy, democratic ideas must be implemented in all situations …

The United Nations Convention ofthe Rights ofthe Child challenges all of those responsible
for the education of children to think in new ways about how to prepare them for democratic …

Discusses the Step by Step Program, funded by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and
operated in Eastern and Central Europe, former Soviet states, Haiti, and South Africa …

Drawing from a compelling educational initiative that introduced developmentally
appropriate teaching techniques from the United States to the well-established early …

This paper begins by reviewing the relevance of the 1948 United Nations Declaration of
Human Rights, and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to school students …

This paper provides a synthesis of the scholarly literature on education for democratic
citizenship (EDC) in the school sector in England since 1995. Following the publication of …

One important implication of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is that every child
should be part of democratic society. In the present empirical study, students'(aged 12–14 …

A significant outcome of the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and beyo been the
recognition that people need to be educated about the importance democracy and …

For democracies to be effective and to ensure their future they require the ac participation of
their citizens. Citizens may acquire the knowledge, skills, va and dispositions to be active …