Attitudes of Communities in Rural Areas towards the Development of Wind Energy by Mirosława Witkowska-Dabrowska, Natalia Świdyńska, Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Baryła

“…The study revealed that both the NIMBY syndrome and the lack of civic engagement influence attitudes towards renewable energy technologies in rural areas. …”
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Wenn Männer Väter werden – Über die Auswirkungen der Vaterschaft auf Freizeit, Lebenszufriedenheit und familiäre Beziehungen by Matthias Pollmann-Schult

“…The results indicate that fatherhood positively affects men’s life satisfaction, civic engagement, religious participation, and the closeness of the relationship between men and their families of origin. …”
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The Influence of Religious Identity, Culture, and Values on the Practice of American Muslim Physicians by Wahiba Abu-Ras, Farid Senzai, Lance Laird, Eliza Decker

“…This study addresses the significance that American Muslim physicians (AMPs) attribute to their religious values in shaping their identity; and examines how the values held by self-identified Muslim physicians affect their medical practice, specialization, public roles, and civic engagement. This paper also discusses how complex lives may not be adequately addressed by theories of value derived from modernization theory and more normatively conceived Muslim ethical principles. …”
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Faculty perspectives on rewards and incentives for community-engaged work: A multinational exploratory study by Trang Vuong, Amy Newcomb Rowe, Lorlene Hoyt, Carol Carrier

“…All of these institutions are members of TN, an international association of 368 institutions in 77 countries committed to strengthening civic engagement. Thirty-eight respondents were chosen based on diverse recruiting requirements. …”
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Whither slacktivism? Political engagement and social media use in the 2013 Czech Parliamentary elections by Václav Štětka, Jaromír Mazák

“…The theoretical framework of the paper is inspired by the competing perspectives on the role of social media for democratic participation and civic engagement, the mobilization vs. normalization thesis, as well as by the popular concepts of clicktivism or slacktivism (Morozov, 2009), denouncing online activism for allegedly not being complemented by offline actions and having little or no impact on real-life political processes. …”
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Digitalization and Inclusive Education: Common Ground by D. Z. Akhmetova, T. S. Artyukhina, M. R. Bikbayeva, I. A. Sakhnova, M. A. Suchkov, E. A. Zaytseva

“…Digitalization in the modern world also influences on the civic engagement. In addition, digital citizenship makes it possible to develop professional competencies, ethical standards of culture among the young generation, in particular, among people with disabilities.In this article, the authors study the development of psychological, pedagogical, and communicative competencies of pedagogues required in inclusive education. …”
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Local communities as а tool for urban conflict resolution by Alexander A. Larichev, Larisa V. Soldatova, Vladimir V. Tabolin

“…Urban development trends are expressed both in the need for centralized determination of the direction of urban environment, and public demand for greater civic engagement. Accordingly, conflicts cannot be avoided, but it is important not to accept this obvious truth, but to create a tradition of constant thoughtful analysis of ongoing processes, identifying causes and searching for solutions. …”
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Residential Micro-Segregation and Social Capital in Lima, Peru by Fernando Calderón-Figueroa

“…Using ten waves of the Lima Cómo Vamos survey (2010–2019), I show that micro-segregating infrastructure is associated with higher trust in neighbours and lower civic engagement. These findings indicate that exposure to segregation affects social capital within and across secluded neighbourhoods throughout the socioeconomic spectrum.…”
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The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend: Anti-Racism Work, Platform Affordances, and the Vernacular of Gesticular Activism on TikTok by Xinyu Zhao, Crystal Abidin

“…In response, (East) Asian users on TikTok called out the historically racist undertones of this seemingly superficial trend, using the features and affordances of the platform to produce everyday, nonheroic forms of digital activism, as an act of civic engagement and activist campaigning. Building on the scholarship on digital activism, we consider how TikTok has emerged as an alternative activist space for young people, specifically as it services users as a video production and sharing app. …”
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Étude croisée du rapport aux savoirs à l’égard des sciences naturelles et des sciences humaines et sociales : portraits d’élèves de la fin du secondaire au Québec by Geneviève Therriault, Agnieszka Jeziorski, Barbara Bader, Émilie Morin

“…It is an extension of studies in science education and humanities which tends to strengthen civic engagement and the teaching and learning of socio-controversial issues at the secondary level, in order to enhance various facets of the relationship to knowledge and to the act of learning of young people. …”
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To win the war is not the same as to ‘win the peace’: the coming constitutional moment in Ukraine by Antoni Z. Kamiński, Emilia Kowalewska

“…We conclude that multi-level political and civic engagement in a new constitutional process will be indispensable for reconstructing the institutional foundations for peace, democratic governance and the rule of law in post-conflict Ukraine. …”
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University and Two Meanings of Responsibility: Objectification of Social Effects of Educational Institutions (by the example of a survey among graduates of an Orthodox university) by Ivan Zabayev, Ivan Pavlyutkin

“…The data on graduates’ shared values and attitudes obtained in the survey was compared to results of national and international surveys on family issues, civic engagement, values, employment, social capital, and consumption practices. …”
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The Role of Social Capital, Sex Communication, and Sex Refusal Self-Efficacy in Sexual Risk Behaviors and HIV Testing among a Diverse Sample of Youth by David Cordova, Kate Coleman-Minahan, Tattiana Romo, Evelinn A. Borrayo, Sheana Bull

“…Social capital, namely civic engagement, adult support, and community support, shapes behaviors in meaningful ways, yet the literature examining the relationship between social capital and sexual risk behaviors and HIV testing among youth remains limited. …”
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Critical digital literacy and active citizenship at school: The experience of the Scientix Ambassadors by Francesco Maiorana, Stefania Altieri, Angela Colli, Mirko Labri, Lidia Nazzaro, Marina Porta, Alice Severi, Giusy Cristaldi

“…The experiences cover all school levels and aspects spanning Information Literacies related to online inquiry process and source validation and verification; Data Literacy and its importance for active and critical participation in society; Digital Citizenship and sustainable use of technologies and digital civic engagement and technology use related to Computational Thinking and coding. …”
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Civic participation digitalisation: limitations in the digital divides field by M. A. Gruzdeva

“…The study results can be considered when planning the civil society development, taking into account current trends, developing tools to motivate different socio-demographic population groups to civic engagement online.…”
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MEMORIALIZATION THROUGH METAVERSE: NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR HERITAGE EDUCATION by C. Lee

“…The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic has restricted civic engagement with heritage sites and on-site learning. …”
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Effect of social capital, social support and social network formation on the quality of life of American adults during COVID-19 by Ebenezer Larnyo, Sharon Tettegah, Brianna Griffin, Jonathan Aseye Nutakor, Natasha Preece, Stephen Addai-Dansoh, Natalia Dubon, Senyuan Liu

“…The analysis showed that social capital assessed using civic engagement, social cohesion, socioeconomic status (SES), social support, and social network formation were significantly and positively associated with American adults’ quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Spre o Uniune Europeană mai deliberativă // Towards a more deliberative European Union by Cosmin Țugui

“…The bodies of the Union must encourage civic engagement in all its forms, by developing normative framework conditions intended to encourage the individual desire for involvement of every European citizen. …”
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What causes satisfaction? A multiyear analysis of Armenian local communities by Arman Gasparyan

“…The secondary aim is to showcase what aspect of this strategy (i.e., political components or improved service delivery) made a more visible impact on satisfaction.The analysis of citizen satisfaction is based on data from 2015 to 2019 nationwide representative surveys, conducted within the Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) – Armenia “Civic Engagement in Local Governance” (CELoG) Program. …”
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"It's not just building per se. It's building worlds". John Hejduk: l'architettura e la sua idea / "It's not just building per se. It's building worlds". John Hejduk: architecture... by Luca Cardani

“…A subterranean idea feed the phases of his architectural career, link to each other, under the civic engagement roof, the educator’s passion for the transmissibility of knowledge, with the artist-architect’s exaltation of subjective implication.…”
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