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Civic education: what makes students learn
Abstract
This study takes a look at what America's high school seniors know about government and politics and how they learn it. The authors develop a theoretical model to explain the cognitive process by which students learn about politics, and suggest changes in the style of civics teaching.
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Metadata
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1999-05-01
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 09
- Pages
- 36-5225-36-5225
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W1546886084
- Cited by
- 899
- References
- 0
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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