Knowledge Of Citizens Research Articles

The Role Of Civic Education In The Formation Of A Democratic Society (Udin Sarifudin Winataputra's Perspective)

This article has the aim of providing a theoretical review of the role of Citizenship Education in the formation of a democratic society through the views or perspective of Prof. Dr. Udin Sarifudin Winataputra, M.A., This research tries to build and obtain results from the theoretical and empirical foundations of Citizenship Education both among the public as well as students and teachers in the world of education, which aims to be able to develop a concept of the role of Citizenship Education in forming a democratic society. In this article, it can be concluded that Citizenship Education has three main roles or functions in the formation of a democratic society, namely developing civic intelligence, cultivating civic responsibility, and encouraging citizen participation both among the community and among education. The three functions or roles of civics education are also in line with the three components of civics education, namely citizenship knowledge, civic values and attitudes, and citizenship skills.

Energy Justice as Epistemic Justice

ABSTRACT Energy justice is often conceived of as consisting of distributive, procedural, and recognitional justice. This article adds epistemic justice, which engages with the question of how the exchange of knowledge can be shaped fairly. Energy issues ramify across social worlds, connecting to multiple knowledge systems. The conventional elements of energy justice place specific demands on how different knowledge systems must be accommodated. Epistemic work must be done to bridge epistemological differences and pay due respect to different forms of knowledge. Energy justice should not neglect this epistemic work, and it cannot be assumed that it is sufficient to invite stakeholders to the discussion arena. I argue that fair ways of dealing with knowledge and fair opportunities for citizens to contribute knowledge to energy affairs are crucial to achieving energy justice of any general form. Also, this epistemic justice is not to be seen as yet another pillar of energy justice but a concern that runs through all pillars of energy justice.

The citizens have participated – what now? An action research study of factors impacting the use of participatory citizen knowledge in planning processes

ABSTRACT Citizen participation is embedded into planning practice and policy, yet it remains unclear how the results of participation are shared in planning organisations and utilised to inform planning outcomes. This article examines barriers and enablers for systematic gathering, sharing and utilisation of participatory citizen knowledge and analyses the collaborative development of knowledge-sharing practices in two Finnish municipalities. The article focuses specifically on the collection and dissemination of local, experiential knowledge from two municipality-wide Public Participation GIS surveys. The study adopts an action research approach to deepen the understanding of planners' complex relationships with participatory citizen knowledge: how they gather and share it, how it informs their work and how they develop their everyday practice. The results suggest that a variety of practical, technical and cultural factors influence whether planners access and utilise gathered citizen knowledge. Planners' backgrounds, skills and personalities also influence how they perceive and utilise citizen knowledge. When provided with accessible and representative data about citizens' behaviours and preferences, adequate resources and a sense of agency through supportive organisation culture, officials from different sectors were eager to develop the use of participatory knowledge. These emergent practices can be used to inform wider iterative development to meet practitioners' needs.

Towards a New Integrated Model for Taking Into Account the Experiential Knowledge of People With Chronic Diseases, Integrating Mediation, Therapeutic Education and Partnership: The Expanded Chronic Care Patient-Professional Partnership Model.

The Chronic Care Model (CCM), the Expanded Chronic Care Model (ECCM) and the eHealth Enhanced Chronic Care Model (eCCM) focus on how healthcare teams and eHealth support can offer effective care and relevant solutions for patients facing chronic care conditions. However, they do not consider how patients can help these teams in their work, nor do they promote ways in which patients can help themselves. However, in the last decade, three different models have emerged that can complete our capacity to design and deliver integrated care for people with chronic diseases. In this article, we propose a revised version of the model that integrates the patient perspective and patients' experience-based knowledge. It integrates three different ways of engaging patients that complement the other patient engagement point of view: the experience of care and mediation in healthcare, therapeutic patient education and patient learning pathways, as well as patient-professional partnership. For each of the three models, we conducted a review of the literature using CINAHL, Medline, OVID, EMBASE PsychINFO, Science Direct and government reports on patient engagement and partnership with their healthcare providers, to integrate the different components of these models into the ECCM and eCCM. The goal is to create a model that better takes into account the experiential knowledge of patients and citizens throughout its different dimensions. We identified 129 papers based on their framework, design, sample, measures and fit with patient engagement and chronic illness and added our own research when relevant. Integrating the three models provides an opportunity to amplify the role played by the patient perspective in the management of chronic disease. The Expanded Chronic Care Patient-Professional Partnership Model (E2C3PM) is intended to rebalance power relations between healthcare professionals and patients (and their caregivers). This new model is based on recognizing patients' experiential knowledge and their roles as caregivers and as full members of the care team. Integrating patient empowerment into the E2C3PM underscores the importance of coproduction care with patients at the clinical, organizational and system levels within a supportive environment. Applying this new model should make it possible to better take into account the complexity of chronic diseases, improving the integration not only of care, services and eHealth support but also the various determinants of health and reaching a mutually beneficial settlement among all actors involved. A patient-researcher contributed to the development of the protocol, the data collection and the preparation and writing of this manuscript.

Locating the potential development of spatial ability in the Swedish national curriculum

There exists a plethora of studies that have related pupils’ spatial ability to their academic achievement and problem-solving skills, especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. However, little is known about how spatial ability could be presented in a national curriculum. To increase the awareness and intention to develop pupils' spatial ability within the national curriculum, the compulsory curriculum document from the Swedish National Agency for Education which details all subject syllabi is examined and analysed using a content analysis method. The results show that two major dimensions could be used to locate the potential spatial ability development within the curriculum. The first is a visual dimension, which manifests as three different visual components: graphical, pictorial, and manufactured. The second is an epistemic dimension, which describes how pupils' different types of spatial knowledge can be nurtured, and inductively described as conceptual, procedural, and spatial citizenship knowledge. A three-by-three matrix framework is created based on the above dimensions and components. Policymakers and educators in Sweden, as well as in other countries, may draw insights from the framework created by this study and adapt it to educational practice, particularly in the realm of developing students' spatial ability through curriculum design and classroom instruction.

The Effectiveness of The Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Model Assisted by Wordwall Application on Citizenship Competence (A Quasi-Experimental Study of 8th Grade Students at SMP Muhammadiyah Bumiayu)

This study aims to determine the extent to which the Jigsaw cooperative learning model, assisted by the Wordwall application, affects the formation of citizenship competence in the subject of the Youth Pledge within the framework of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika. The research method used quasi-experimental with a Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The sample includes Grade VIII A as the control group (n=35) and Grade VIII B as the experimental group (n=35). Data collection techniques included tests, questionnaires, observations, interviews, and documentation, analyzed using the Paired Sample Test and Independent Sample T-Test with a significance level of 5%, resulting in 0.000 0.05, indicating that the Jigsaw cooperative learning model assisted by the Wordwall application is effective in developing students' citizenship competence. The results show a significant difference between the experimental and control groups. Citizenship knowledge improved to 86% in the experimental group compared to 76% in the control group, citizenship skills to 86% compared to 76%, and citizenship attitudes or character to 79% compared to 64%. The Effect Size test result was 2.166, categorized as a high effect. This is evidenced by the study's findings that the Jigsaw cooperative learning model assisted by the Wordwall application significantly affects students' citizenship competence in the subject of the Youth Pledge within the framework of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika at SMP Muhammadiyah Bumiayu.

Development and validation of China’s Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire: evidence from junior high school students

The cultivation of environmental citizens has become an important measure to cope with the environmental crisis, and the research on the knowledge, conceptions, skills, attitudes, values, and actions of environmental citizens using the Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ) is becoming a research focus. The research on environmental citizenship in China mainly staying at the level of theoretical research and descriptive research due to the accuracy of the ECQ. The emergence of the ECQ-China Version is helpful to promote the empirical research on environmental citizenship in China.This study verifies the effectiveness of the ECQ by removing 16 ECQ items which are not suitable for Chinese culture and evaluating environmental citizen-related knowledge among 550 Chinese junior high school students. The ECQ-China Version, consisting of 75 items, showed convincing results for all measurements: students’ past and present environmental citizenship behavior and the essential skills, values, attitudes, and competence that an environmental citizen should be equipped with had a significant impact on students’ future environmental citizenship behavior. This study suggests that: (1) Environmental citizenship education should not only focus on knowledge education, but also include skills education. (2) Environmental citizenship education should adhere to comprehensive principles, focusing on innovative practice of ideas and methods. (3) China’s environmental citizenship education should focus on the cultivation of citizens’ ability to participate, so that environmental citizenship can become the driving force for sustainable environmental development.

Fill the map: Integrating objective data and citizen knowledge for Participatory Urban Planning

Fill the map: Integrating objective data and citizen knowledge for Participatory Urban Planning

Russian internet news sites, 2008–2018: Fostering an informed citizenry?

Since Perestroika, Russian journalism has gone through a liberalization. However, the short lived apex of journalistic freedom that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s was followed by a setback in particular since Putin’s accession to power in 2000. The situation for the freedom of the daily press has stagnated. Despite this, the findings based on qualitative text analysis of news articles in some of the most important Russian news sites, strongly indicate that during 2008–2018 readers of news sites were being addressed as active and knowledgeable citizens. The methods focussing on perspectivation and the use of sources, exploring what voices that are used to get messages through and how they are represented, are applied to four case studies casting light on the period. The findings imply that a number of Russian Internet outlets had strengthened their role as advocates of the Fourth Estate. The results further indicate a sharp distinction between news sites that are utilizing traditional Western journalistic devices, and news sites employing a traditional Russian/Soviet journalistic approach. Thus, the roles of the audiences as active citizens were to a certain extent strengthened.

Civic Literacy and Disinformation in Democracies

The aim of this study is to explore civic literacy as an approach to counter disinformation in democracies. From group interviews, we elicit, categorize, and analyze diverse perspectives on disinformation in Sweden, previously upheld as a country with high civic literacy levels. We focus on people’s understandings of disinformation, their assessment of their own abilities to discern disinformation, and their ideas about how increased resilience to disinformation could be achieved. Our findings, based on input from 73 interviewees across Sweden, suggest that shared basic knowledge on disinformation is lacking. Moreover, there is a related weak understanding of what constitutes authentic information. Those with low awareness operate on a logic of beliefs, implying that measures to improve factuality and objectivity could not even be aspired for. Still, there are also constituents showing advanced understandings. The majority of respondents call for new measures to strengthen citizen knowledge and skills and generate many proposals to that end. Our results indicate that citizen competence needs to increase considerably to keep up with the rapidly evolving disinformation environment. A concerted drive to boost citizen knowledge and skills, tailored to different constituencies, is needed for the democratic system to work as intended.

Investigating the Contribution of Out-of-School Learning Environments to the Teaching of 4th Grade Social Studies Course According to the

The aim of this study is to examine the contribution of out-of-school learning environments to the teaching of 4th grade social studies course according to the views of classroom teachers. The study group of the research consists of 13 classroom teachers in Turkey determined according to the criterion sampling method. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers. The data obtained were analyzed by content analysis method using NVivo 12 computer package program and then interpreted. Accordingly, it was determined that students learned the subject by doing-living through out-of-school learning environments, their academic achievement increased, and they were motivated in these environments. In these environments, it was found that students established a serious connection between the past and the future, learned about their own culture, communicated with each other, socialized, gained knowledge of responsible citizenship, realized interdisciplinary learning and developed independent thinking skills in students. Various suggestions were made based on the findings.

Post-war Soviet elections 1947–1953: features of conduct and social significance (based on materials from the city of Gorky)

The article examines the features of the conduct and social significance of elections to Soviet authorities in 1947–1953. The importance of studying this topic is associated with the need to study the state of Soviet society during the designated period. The study of elections to local authorities allows us to reconstruct the tasks that the Soviet authorities set when conducting election campaigns, the features of their conduct in different localities, the reaction of citizens, their orders and expectations from election campaigns and electoral actions. In the course of the study, using new data from archival documents, it was possible to establish the dates and features of the election campaigns to the Soviet authorities in 1947, 1950, 1953. It was noted that regular election campaigns contributed to increasing the political knowledge of citizens, introducing them to Soviet political culture, and also formed a «positive image» of the authorities in the eyes of Soviet citizens. At the same time, election campaigns revealed that Soviet citizens had a number of critical comments about the nominated deputies, which suggests the existence of dissatisfaction with certain aspects of everyday life that did not affect the main directions of Soviet state policy.

Determinants of intended prevention behaviour against mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses in the Netherlands and Spain using the MosquitoWise survey: cross-sectional study

BackgroundRecently, Europe has seen an emergence of mosquito-borne viruses (MBVs). Understanding citizens’ perceptions of and behaviours towards mosquitoes and MBVs is crucial to reduce disease risk. We investigated and compared perceptions, knowledge, and determinants of citizens’ behavioural intentions related to mosquitoes and MBVs in the Netherlands and Spain, to help improve public health interventions.MethodsUsing the validated MosquitoWise survey, data was collected through participant panels in Spain (N = 475) and the Netherlands (N = 438). Health Belief Model scores measuring behavioural intent, knowledge, and information scores were calculated. Confidence Interval-Based Estimation of Relevance was used, together with potential for change indexes, to identify promising determinants for improving prevention measure use.ResultsSpanish participants’ responses showed slightly higher intent to use prevention measures compared to those of Dutch participants (29.1 and 28.2, respectively, p 0.03). Most participants in Spain (92.2%) and the Netherlands (91.8%) indicated they used at least one prevention measure, but differences were observed in which types they used. More Spanish participants indicated to have received information on mosquitoes and MBVs compared to Dutch participants. Spanish participants preferred health professional information sources, while Dutch participants favoured government websites. Determinants for intent to use prevention measures included “Knowledge”, “Reminders to Use Prevention Measures”, and “Information” in the Netherlands and Spain. Determinants for repellent use included “Perceived Benefits” and “Cues to Action”, with “Perceived Benefits” having a high potential for behavioural change in both countries. “Self-Efficacy” and “Knowledge” were determinants in both countries for breeding site removal.ConclusionThis study found differences in knowledge between the Netherlands and Spain but similarities in determinants for intent to use prevention measures, intent to use repellents and intent to remove mosquito breeding sites. Identified determinants can be the focus for future public health interventions to reduce MBV risks.

Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy

Citizen knowledge: markets, experts, and the infrastructure of democracy

Evaluasi Pengelolaan Sampah Menggunakan Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities (CRIC) Waste Assessment Tool Kota Palembang

Waste is a problem that cannot be ignored because it is always generated in all aspects of life. The Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities CRIC Waste Assessment Tool helps in analyzing the current situation in the city and provides important and practical recommendations from both technical aspects, governance, and social issues. The research aims to evaluate urban waste management using the Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities (CRIC) Waste Assessment Tool based on management technology in Palembang City. A quantitative strategy was used in this research, along with a descriptive and verification research method. Secondary data is taken from the national waste management information system and other literature to fill in the CRIC Waste Assessment Tool application. Data analysis using CRIC Tool covers waste management, governance, economy and knowledge of citizens, GHG emissions. The results of measuring waste management performance with CRIC show that waste management in the city is still low, most of the waste is disposed of uncontrollably, resulting in SLCPs. Waste banks and TPS3R are still lacking. Achievement of waste management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has only reached 50% of the recommended target. Proper waste handling is still lacking, such as reduced dumping, open burning, and better composting practices. This will support modifications in waste handling from the community, which can support waste management technology development.

IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRATED CYBER EDUCATION IN EUROPE

The development of partnerships between European countries in the field of cyber education is currently playing a significant role in enhancing countries’ cyber potential and comprehensive and systemic counteraction to cyber threats. The research aims to outline the main principles of implementing an integrated cyber education system in European countries. To solve the tasks set, the research uses the following methods: cognition methods to study theoretical foundations of digital education development; comparative and analytical methods to analyze National Cybersecurity Indices and Digital Development Level Indices of the EU and Ukraine; heuristic (expert) methods to formulate the goal, objectives, conclusions and recommendations to form a multilevel generalized model of cyber education; and logical and formalized methods to outline the relevance of cyber education to counter cyber threats. The research discusses the issue of digital education, presents National Cybersecurity Indices and Digital Development Level Indices of countries, explores the gaps between National Cybersecurity Indices and Digital Development Level Indices of the EU and Ukraine, and outlines the basic principles of the European Cybersecurity Taxonomy. The main research results are the proposed categorical apparatus of integrated cyber education in European countries and the multi-level generalized model of cyber education to gradually acquire skills and abilities to combat cyber threats introduced from primary school to adult education. Thus, a comprehensive acquisition of skills to combat cyber threats will help to develop knowledge, skills and abilities of European citizens in the field of cybersecurity and improve the cyber potential of European countries. The introduction of unified regulatory courses and methodological support developed in accordance with the best international practices and harmonized with the terminology of EU and NATO member states will enable effective cooperation in a single information and cyber space.

Civic Knowladge of Civic Servant in Sharia Law with Post Conflict of Province Aceh

Civic knowledge in Indonesian context is the citizen knowledge about how they see themselves and their surroundings, emphasizing national and territorial unity in accordance with Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, and the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. Civic knowledge is also critical for all civil servants in Indonesia to strengthen their sense of integrity as Indonesian citizens and in providing services to others in their workplaces. This civic knowledge is also critical for civil servants who live in Islamic sharia law with post-conflict area such Aceh. Therefore, this study investigates the attitudes of State Civil Servants (ASN) in Aceh Province on the importance of nationality understanding. The purpose of this study is to determine how ASN's opinion of the country they serve relates to civic knowledge. This study employed a qualitative approach with a contextual perspective. Questionnaires were distributed to 45 ASN in Aceh and 5 of the ASN were interviewed. The results showed that the majority of ASN have an in-depth understanding of the Indonesian civic knowledge. It means that the perception of the ASN reflects on what they know and understand about the meaning of Indonesia and the fundamentals of this nation to realize unity so that they are not easily provoked by radicalism and dogmas that undermine the national unity.

Intercultural and Deliberative Disaster Ethics in Volcanic Eruptions

The objectives of this article are (i) to identify the most challenging ethical dilemmas and questions arising from the experiences of communities and professionals affected by or involved in volcanic eruptions, including risk management, the dissemination of information, and tourism; and (ii) to provide arguments for intercultural ethics to address these dilemmas. Intercultural ethics provide invaluable resources to disaster ethics across all three phases of the complete disaster management cycle. In this article, intercultural ethics is viewed as an ethics grounded in ongoing dialogue, facilitating the examination and establishment of norms and a critical reflection on values and their evolution. This approach recognizes power dynamics that may influence fair participation in dialogues and aims to address them, while also integrating elements of deliberative ethics to ensure that dialogues genuinely contribute to legitimizing decisions. Intercultural sensibility helps bridge the gap between experts and non-experts in both directions (a) by emphasizing the duty of transferring scientific knowledge (for experts) and the responsibility of acquiring scientific literacy (for citizens); and (b) by highlighting the importance of a ‘knowledge dialogue’ that acknowledges the non-scientific knowledge of citizens, rooted in their cultural background and experiences of dealing with past disasters, and shaping life in volcanic territories.

Tracking rapid and slow ice-dammed lake changes through optical satellites and local knowledge: a case study of Tystigbreen in Norway

Abstract The number of glacial lakes has grown globally concurrently with the retreat of glaciers in the last few decades, increasing the risk of potentially hazardous glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and posing a threat to downstream communities. Norway has several known ice-dammed lakes that produce repeated GLOFs but as we show here, the existing GLOF database is incomplete and needs to be improved through continuous monitoring of glaciers and glacial lakes. This study examines the case of an ice cap in central Norway hosting at least four drainage-prone lakes. We reconstruct the sequence of lake drainage events through a combination of remote sensing, ground-truthing and citizen science while scrutinising the applicability of the PlanetScope imagery vs Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI products. As opposed to the Landsat imagery that often fails to resolve even the largest glacial lakes of Tystigbreen, both PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 are helpful in identifying previously unrecognised glacial lakes and undocumented drainage events. Our analysis suggests that a fusion of the two satellite products may be beneficial for automated tracking of glacial lake changes. We also demonstrate that local knowledge and systematic involvement of citizens in data collection have a potential to enrich GLOF databases.

Does the Resilience learning game facilitate open innovation and global citizenship reflecting sustainability in Greek IT and Telecom industry?

<p>Multimedia learning and development depicts a long-standing challenge for immersive design and regenerative learning in education and industry. Contradictory findings for gaming learning outreach in relation to conventional learning mode seem to turn the learning gameplay challenge into an enduring one. Limited research outcomes exist not only for open innovation (inflow and outflow innovation aspects) but also for global citizenship reflecting sustainability in education and learning game technology, in particular. Therefore, this study rests on exploring open innovation and global citizenship attributes reflecting sustainability in traditional and learning gameplay modes within an IT and Telecom industry setting. We report on 59 Greek employees’ open innovation and global citizenship knowledge, attitudes and skills investigated after-workshop and after-Resilience gaming training in 2023. The attendees perceived the game as more constructive learning and development tool for open innovation and global citizenship capacity compared to conventional learning delivery. Open innovation was connected to aspects of global citizenship (diversity, interpersonal and problem-solving, and seeking knowledge about political/societal issues) that reflect sustainability post-Resilience gaming. Legal male gender and Athens municipality origin were associated with higher open innovation and diversity (element of global citizenship) attributes post-Resilience gameplay. The obtained evidence is discussed alongside theoretical and practical reflection and strands for additional research in learning game open innovation and global citizenship (sustainability) outreach in education and industry.</p>