TY - JOUR
T1 - "It's the worst place to live"
T2 - Urban youth and the challenge of school-based civic learning
AU - Rubin, Beth C.
AU - Hayes, Brian
AU - Benson, Keith
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - One of the primary aims of education in the United States is to prepare youth to contribute to civic life in a democracy. Urban youth have daily school and community experiences with poverty, violence, and injustice that complicate their relationship with civic life. In this article the authors explore the ramifications of these experiences for youth civic identity development and consider how new understandings of the civic learning and identity development of urban adolescents might be used to rejuvenate civic education practices and, by extension, the civic mission of schooling.
AB - One of the primary aims of education in the United States is to prepare youth to contribute to civic life in a democracy. Urban youth have daily school and community experiences with poverty, violence, and injustice that complicate their relationship with civic life. In this article the authors explore the ramifications of these experiences for youth civic identity development and consider how new understandings of the civic learning and identity development of urban adolescents might be used to rejuvenate civic education practices and, by extension, the civic mission of schooling.
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U2 - 10.1080/00405840902997436
DO - 10.1080/00405840902997436
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70449556713
SN - 0040-5841
VL - 48
SP - 213
EP - 221
JO - Theory Into Practice
JF - Theory Into Practice
IS - 3
ER -