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Cameron Adamski
EDTL 2760
MR Title(s): Beyond Personally Responsible research study
MR Source(s): Patterson, N., Misco, T., & Doppen, F. (2012). Beyond personally responsible: A study of
teacher conceptualizations of citizenship education. Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice, 7(2), 191-206.
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pp. 197

Even in the context of high-stakes testing

and content knowledge expertise, the
citizenship purpose ranked highest among
the provided options, followed by
developing language arts skills and
teaching content knowledge.

pp. 197

Nearly two-thirds of secondary social

studies teachers (102/155 or 65.8 percent)
(see Table 3) were categorized as
personally responsible.

pp. 199

I feel like this should not be any surprise

because not only is it a content standard to a
degree, but it is also many peoples opinion of
why social studies is important in schools.

I am not sure if this is because they try to teach

personally responsible behaviors by doing
these civic duties, or if they are just naturally
good people trying to help out their community.
Would be interesting to know what would
happen if they werent teachers, would they
still volunteer, vote, etc.?
When asked how well their citizenship
I feel like citizenship, to me, is a predominantly
goals were met in the classroom, all four
present type of concept. Its hard to define
participants discussed the importance of
citizenship through a past type of perspective
making connections with the present,
because the definition of citizenship changes by
defining citizenship education as somewhat what is happening in todays world.
outside the history curriculum.

Connections to previous MR:

- The main connection from this MR and the last was the idea of citizenship. However in this one it
focuses on the definition and how teachers use it in a classroom and express it outside of the
classroom. The last just showed that it was in some content standards.