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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

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.

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    • Does School Participatory Budgeting Increase Students’ Political Efficacy? Bandura’s “Sources,” Civic Pedagogy, and Education for Democracy
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    2021-05-01
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    • Bandura
    • Civic education
    • Civic education gap
    • Civic engagement
    • Civic pedagogy
    • Deliberative civic pedagogies
    • Political efficacy
    • School participatory budgeting
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    Gibbs, Norman P., Bartlett, Tara, Schugurensky, Daniel. (2021) "Does School Participatory Budgeting Increase Students’ Political Efficacy? Bandura’s ‘Sources’, Civic Pedagogy, and Education for Democracy," Curriculum and Teaching, Vol 36: 1, pgs. 5-27. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/36.1.02

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