Download or read book Producing Good Citizens written by Amy J. Wan and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon, looking specifically to the period just before World War I, up until the Great Depression. During this time, the United States witnessed a similar anxiety over the influx of immigrants, economic uncertainty, and global political tensions. Early on, educators bore the brunt of literacy training, while also being charged with producing the right kind of citizens by imparting civic responsibility and a moral code for the workplace and society. Literacy quickly became the credential to gain legal, economic, and cultural status. In her study, Wan defines three distinct pedagogical spaces for literacy training during the 1910s and 1920s: Americanization and citizenship programs sponsored by the federal government, union-sponsored programs, and first year university writing programs. Wan also demonstrates how each literacy program had its own motivation: the federal government desired productive citizens, unions needed educated members to fight for labor reform, and university educators looked to aid social mobility. Citing numerous literacy theorists, Wan analyzes the correlation of reading and writing skills to larger currents within American society. She shows how early literacy training coincided with the demand for laborers during the rise of mass manufacturing, while also providing an avenue to economic opportunity for immigrants. This fostered a rhetorical link between citizenship, productivity, and patriotism. Wan supplements her analysis with an examination of citizen training books, labor newspapers, factory manuals, policy documents, public deliberations on citizenship and literacy, and other materials from the period to reveal the goal and rationale behind each program. Wan relates the enduring bond of literacy and citizenship to current times, by demonstrating the use of literacy to mitigate economic inequality, and its lasting value to a productivity-based society. Today, as in the past, educators continue to serve as an integral part of the literacy training and citizen-making process.

Download or read book Citizens in Training written by Jon B. Alterman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Marines made famous their search for “a few good men.” The United Arab Emirates (UAE), however, wants all its men—from the ages of 18 to 30—to experience the discipline and rigors of military life. To that end, for reasons of national security, nation-building, and societal development, the UAE has instituted a universal conscription program, a rarity in the modern world of nations. This report is the most extensive effort to date to define and to understand the UAE conscription program—its successes, failures, and possible unintended consequences. The report outlines the circumstances influencing the UAE’s decision to impose military service for male citizens as a framework for an ambitious array of defense, nation-building, and human capital aims. Included in the report are details of the UAE’s program with a focus on important innovations, initial results, and relevant implications.

Download or read book Forgotten Summers written by Donald M. Kington and published by Two Decades Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At about 45 one-month-long camps (CMTC) run each summer by the Army, young volunteers experienced the challenges & satisfactions of soldiering. Reserve Colonel Harry Truman was once a CMTC commander; Ronald Reagan was commissioned through CMTC; Generals Pershing, MacArthur, & Marshall were active in the program; & while training, it inspired 17-year-old Robert Penn Warren's first poem. "This first (account) of the CMTC is a resounding success. ...Kington presents institutional history in human terms, with fascinating results,"--Bernard Nalty, author & retired Air Force historian; "Kington's history of CMTC vividly recreates an almost forgotten chapter in the history of the U.S. Army...,"--J. Garry Clifford, author of THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS; "(This) very readable book...makes good use of lively memories of almost 100 veterans to remind us of the place of CMTC in our history,"--Edward Coffman, THE OLD ARMY; "(Finally) we have a definitive account of one of America's most significant, yet least known, social programs for young men....(The book) is an invaluable contribution to the current debate on national youth service...,"--Charles Moskos, A CALL TO CIVIC SERVICE. To order send $18.75, plus $2 postage/handling to: Two Decades Publishing, Box A-169, 3739 Balboa St., San Francisco, CA 94121, Phone: (415) 752-9511.

Download or read book Federal Council of Citizenship Training written by United States. Federal Council of Citizenship Training and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empowering Global Citizens written by Fernando Reimers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare them for work and life in an era of globalization, volatility, and uncertainty? Empowering Global Citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions. This book presents The World Course, a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty-first-century competencies that develop agency, imagination, confidence, and the skills to navigate the complexity of our times. Drawing on a rich conceptual framework of global education, The World Course scaffolds the development of global competency drawing on project-based learning and other pedagogies that support personalization. The course expands children's horizons, helping them understand the world in which they live in all its complexity from kindergarten to high school. This is done through learning activities at the zone for proximal development for each age group, with activities that foster student agency and a growth mindset.

Download or read book Building Better Citizens written by Holly Korbey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating for citizenship was the original mission of American schools, but for decades that knowledge—also known as civics education—has been in decline, as schools have shifted focus to college and career, STEM, and raising reading and math scores. But over the last few years, spurred on by political polarization and a steep decline in public understanding, civics education is seeing a nation-wide resurgence, as school leaders, educators, and parents recognize the urgency of teaching young people how America works—especially young people who have been marginalized from the political system. But this isn’t your grandmother’s civics. The “new” civics has been updated and re-tooled for the phone-addicted, multi-cultural, globalized twenty-first century kid. From combatting “fake news” with fact checking in Silicon Valley, to reviving elementary school social studies in Nashville, to learning civic activism in Oklahoma City, journalist Holly Korbey documents the grassroots revival happening across the country. Along the way, she provides an essential guidebook for educators, school leaders and caregivers of all types who want to educate a new generation of engaged citizens at a critical time in American democracy.

Download or read book Citizens in Training written by Amos R. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Citizens in Training: A Manual of Christian Citizenship The millions of Christian Endeavorers in the world are in dead earnest - in live earnest, rather - on the great question of Christian citizenship. They are determined that saloon-keepers, the illiterate, the criminal, the corrupt and corrupting ward politician, shall no longer rule our fair cities or dominate our mighty nations. Scores of campaigns for the betterment of city life, through the reform of political abuses or the reform of individual men, have been carried on during the past few years by our ardent Endeavorers. And yet only a beginning has been made. The government of Americas cities is Americas shame. If our great municipalities are to be redeemed within a generation from the foul hands into which they have fallen, the work must be done by the present Christian Endeavor host and their friends. Who will pretend to say that conscience has anything to do with the politics of any of our great cities? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Citizens in Training written by Amos Russel Wells and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education written by Delgado-Algarra, Emilio José and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural competence in education promotes civic engagement among students. Providing students with educational opportunities to understand various cultural and political perspectives allows for higher cultural competence and a greater understanding of civic engagement for those students. The Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education is a critical scholarly book that provides relevant and current research on citizenship and heritage education aimed at promoting active participation and the transformation of society. Readers will come to understand the role of heritage as a symbolic identity source that facilitates the understanding of the present and the past, highlighting the value of teaching. Additionally, it offers a source for the design of didactic proposals that promote active participation and the critical conservation of heritage. Featuring a range of topics such as educational policy, curriculum design, and political science, this book is ideal for educators, academicians, administrators, political scientists, policymakers, researchers, and students.

Download or read book Education for Citizenship written by John Conrad Almack and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CITIZENS IN TRAINING A MANUAL written by Amos R. (Amos Russel) 1862-1933 Wells and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Citizens in the Making Through a Program of Pupil Activity written by Walter Lansing Collins and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Every Citizen a Soldier written by William A. Taylor and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M. Palmer, Walter L. Weible, George C. Marshall, and John J. McCloy mounted a sustained and vigorous campaign to establish a system of universal military training (UMT) in America. Fearful of repeating the rapid demobilization and severe budget cuts that had accompanied peace following World War I, these leaders saw UMT as the basis for their postwar plans. As a result, they promoted UMT extensively and aggressively. In Every Citizen a Soldier: The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II, William A. Taylor illustrates how army leaders failed to adapt their strategy to the political realities of the day and underscores the delicate balance in American democracy between civilian and military control of strategy. This story is vital because of the ultimate outcome of the failure of the UMT initiative: the birth of the Cold War draft.

Download or read book Training in Citizenship written by Roy Winthrop Hatch and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Citizen s in Training written by Amos Wells and published by First Fruits Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits CONTENS Chapter Page I. Christian Endeavor Training Citizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 II. Christian - Citizenship Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 III. A Word About Petitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 IV. Reform Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 V. Christian - Citizenship Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 VI. Temperance Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 VII. Christian Citizenship on Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 VIII. The Rescue of the Fourth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 IX. The Citizen Reaching Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 X. For Sabbath Observance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 XI. Some Christian - Citizenship Crusaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 XII. A Budget Of Plans And Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Download or read book Citizens and Soldiers written by Eliot A. Cohen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the United States, unlike every other 20th-century world power, failed to settle on a durable system of military service? In this lucid book, Eliot Cohen studies the enduring problems of America's methods of raising an army.

Download or read book Education for Citizenship written by Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: