Abstract
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 (Cohen’s d = 1.46), suggesting that SPB is an effective approach to civic pedagogy, with promising prospects for developing students’ political efficacy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 5-27 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Curriculum and Teaching |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Bandura
- Civic education
- Civic education gap
- Civic engagement
- Civic pedagogy
- Deliberative civic pedagogies
- Political efficacy
- School participatory budgeting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education