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Young People's Views of Government, Peaceful Coexistence, and Diversity in Five Latin American Countries

Publication year: 2018

ISBN: 978-3-319-95393-9

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This open access report presents findings from the five Latin American countries that participated in the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2016). ICCS 2016 investigated the ways in which a range of countries are preparing their young people to undertake their roles as citizens during the second decade of the 21st century. The study also responded to new challenges in civic and citizenship education, and its findings allow robust comparisons of lower-secondary students’ attitudes to and perceptions of a wide range of aspects related to civics and citizenship.The results presented in this report come mainly from data collected via a regional Latin American student questionnaire. Data from the international part of the study (test and questionnaire) were used to review the extent to which region-specific perceptions relate to other factors such as students’ level of civic knowledge and students’ socioeconomic and educational contexts.


Subject: Open Access, Civic and citizenship education, ICCS 2016, ICCS Latin America, IEA Educational Achievement, Civic knowledge, Civics and citizenship, Attitudes to civic life, Engagement with civic life, Civic participation, Diversity in society, Peaceful coexistence