Educating Students for Democracy

What Colleges Are Doing, How It's Working, and What Needs to Happen Next

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5741333
AutoresElizabeth A Bennion (0000-0001-9166-8660, autor correspondente), Melissa R Michelson (0000-0002-8533-7926)
Ano2023
Volume705
Fascículo1
Páginas95-115
Data de publicação2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027162231188567
OpenAlexW4388339927
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas35

In the U.S., we have historically looked to our educators to prepare citizens for full participation in our democracy as engaged and informed voters. We examine the student voting movement that has taken root in colleges and universities across the country-a movement that offers a promising way forward in forming a new generation of engaged citizens. We detail what we know about how to increase student turnout, suggest ways to strengthen voter mobilization efforts through a broader civic education agenda, chart a path forward for future research, and offer recommendations for college administrators who seek to make voting a lifelong habit for their students. We also look beyond the student voting movement to argue for new forms of pedagogy that foster civic identity so that students think of themselves as voters who always vote, because voting is a necessary way to express themselves as engaged citizens

Democracy · Identity (music) · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Turnout · Voter registration · Voting · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Higher Education Research Studies · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Public Administration