Articles, Essays, Books Selected Civic Education References

APSA Papers and Articles

This Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle
22 essays to expand the discussion and knowledge-base about the Constitution and other historically relevant issues.

PS Articles Online: Civic Engagement  

PS Articles Online: Teaching 
Includes articles on teaching civic education.  

Papers and Articles from Other Sources

"Roundtable: The Challenge Of Civic Education"
Ostrom, Elinor, Stephen E. Frantzich, David Houghton, Susan A. MacManus, Richard G. Niemi. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il., April 29, 2000. (Audio transcript available on website.)

Reading List

Civic education as a field of study and area of practice has drawn a growing amount of attention from organizations and individual scholars. The past several years have brought a number of outstanding publications from leading scholars. If you are looking to keep on top of the latest research be sure to check out the following titles (list compiled by John Patrick, Director, ERIC Clearinghouse for Social  Studies/Social Science Education)

Callan, Eamonn. Creating Citizens: Political Education And Liberal Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Chesney, James D. and Otto Feinstein. Building Civic Literacy and Citizen Power. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 1997.

Dagger, Richard. Civic Virtue: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Elkin, Stephen and Karol Edward Soltan. Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 1999.

Fierlbeck, Katherine. Globalizing Democracy: Power, Legitimacy, and the Interpretation of Democratic Ideas. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1998.

Gibson, Cynthia. From Inspiration to Participation: A Review of Perspectives on Youth Civic Engagement. Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service, 2001.

Mann, Sheilah and John J. Patrick (eds). Education for Civic Engagement in Democracy: Service Learning and Other Promising Practices. Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse. 2000.

Niemi, Richard G., and Jane Junn. Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn? New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998.

Torney-Purta, Judith, John Schwillle, and Jo-Ann Amadeo. Civic Education Across Countries: Twenty-four National Case Studies From the IEA Civic Education Project. Amsterdam: IEA, 1999.

Touraine, Alain. What Is Democracy? Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997.