The Spencer Foundation invests in education research for the purpose of making education better. Ultimately, the Foundation sees civic education not simply as a grounding in historical and procedural knowledge of systems of government, but, more broadly, as education, whether in schools or elsewhere, that develops skills, knowledge, and dispositions that lead to informed and reasoned civic action.<\/p>\n
With this expanded understanding, the Foundation aims to support research that deepens our understanding of educational and other influences on civic action, that attends to social inequalities in civic education and civic action, and that has the potential to shape future research and practice in these fields. And it aims to create occasions for scholars\u2019 learning, inquiry, and exchange \u2013 to strengthen the research community and its connections to educational policy and practice.<\/p>\n
The New Civics initiative invites research proposals from scholars in education, the social sciences, and the humanities that ask critical questions about how education can more effectively contribute to the civic development of young people.<\/p>\n
Three sets of influences on civic learning and action are of particular interest to the foundation:<\/p>\n
How and why do civic motivations and other cognitive and psychological influences \u2013 such as a sense of social responsibility, civic agency, and civic identity \u2013 develop and change? What role do they play in influencing civic action?<\/p>\n
What kinds of environments, pedagogies, curricula, and relationships are especially conducive to civic learning and to developing civic motivations and commitments?<\/p>\n
How are individuals, groups, and institutions influenced by the times, cultures, and contexts in which they live? How do political processes like elections, unique unifying events (like 9\/11 or the Columbine shootings), national or local policies, and other potential historical or contextual factors influence civic learning and civic action?<\/p>\n
The foundation is interested in populations ranging in age from young children to early adulthood, in formal and informal educational settings and contexts (including \u2018new media\u2019 and the like), and in work that explores the implications for civic action of differing national political systems and cultures and of the globalization of citizenship, national identity, and agency.<\/p>\n
Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a research grant must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or appropriate experience in an education research-related profession.<\/p>\n
The New Civics Request for Proposals<\/a><\/p>\n How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n Detailed guidelines <\/a><\/p>\n Deadlines<\/strong><\/p>\n Internal Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact your Research Facilitator or 杏吧原创 International for help\u00a0with\u00a0proposal development and substantive\u00a0review:<\/p>\n Background The Spencer Foundation invests in education research for the purpose of making education better. Ultimately, the Foundation sees civic education not simply as a grounding in historical and procedural knowledge of systems of government, but, more broadly, as education, whether in schools or elsewhere, that develops skills, knowledge, and dispositions that lead to informed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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