著者

古田 雄一

巻号頁・発行日

vol.33, no.1, pp.69-84, 2019-10-31

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The purpose of this study is to investigate and clarify the characteristics of civic education reform in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). CPS, known as one of the largest metropolitan school districts in the U.S., launched school-wide civic education reform throughout the district to tackle with the issue of the “civic empowerment gap.” First, CPS has created its original high-school civics curriculum that would help teachers incorporate students’ lived experiences into the classroom and teach them how to participate in society and make changes in various ways. In addition, CPS provides students with a variety of opportunities to exercise their voices and take actions to make a difference in school, local communities, and wider society, such as service-learning in multiple subjects and “Student Voice Committee” programs. CPS has also added “Student Voice, Engagement and Civic Life” component into its school evaluation framework, which would foster school-wide commitment to civic education.