ASU Scholarship Showcase
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- All Subjects: Education -- Political aspects
- All Subjects: Mexico
- All Subjects: School budgets
- All Subjects: Students--Political activity
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Does school participatory budgeting (SPB) increase students’ political efficacy? SPB, which is implemented in thousands of schools around the world, is a democratic process of deliberation and decision-making in which students determine how to spend a portion of the school’s budget. We examined the impact of SPB on political efficacy in one middle school in Arizona. Our participants’ (n = 28) responses on survey items designed to measure self-perceived growth in political efficacy indicated a large effect size (Cohen’s d = 1.46), suggesting that SPB is an effective approach to civic pedagogy, with promising prospects for developing students’ political efficacy.
The study aims to understand the internal and external elements associated with dissolution in nonprofits in Mexico City. The study received first place in the XIII Award for Research in Civil Society from the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (CEMEFI).