How to best engender critical thinking in K-12 education?

From my observations, there appear to be three principal avenues to engender critical thinking in education K-12: debate; mathematics, and science. For some students, all three avenues are...

04 February 2021 9,605 7 View

Does anybody know about literature on protest and post-conflict processes/societies? What would you recommend?

I am trying to start a project on the subject and your help would be appreciated

18 January 2021 2,190 6 View

Is any of these questions with no answer yet relevant to you?

If any of the questions listed below is interesting to you, please write a comment stating your view or please recommend the question you find interesting to contacts you think may be interested...

09 October 2020 4,482 5 View

Do you agree with the just issued Great Barrington Declaration regarding the response to COVID-19?

The short and to-the-point text is here and I for one gladly co-signed this declaration, just as I also co-signed the balanced approach statement issued in July 2020 by 23 public health experts...

04 October 2020 8,795 11 View

What is the current importance of the popular legislative initiative for strengthening democracy?

The objective in formulating the questioning is the search to identify what is the feeling that the researchers have about the interactions between the strengthening of democracy through the...

12 June 2020 4,085 2 View

Coronavirus and politics: what does the epidemic tell us about democracy and other regimes?

Most of us experience far-reaching restrictions on private and public life, introduced by governments all over the world because of the coronavirus epidemic. Generally, these restrictions make a...

22 March 2020 6,992 95 View

What is the relationship between Covid-19 and the level of democracy?

In the disaster management literature, it is suggested that there is a relationship between disaster-related deaths and the democracy level of countries. According to this view, disaster-related...

16 March 2020 2,154 45 View

Chemical laboratories in Tunisia ?

01 February 2020 5,381 1 View

Should Mr. Obama be allowed to run for president?

It seems good that after two terms in office, the president leaves the office for one term. But I do not consider good not to allow that person to run for president ever again. American citizens...

10 November 2019 841 11 View

Looking for an article that criticizes the association between the effective number of parties and better democratic performance?

I am looking for either empirical or theoretical works that challenge or question the relationship between the effective number of parties and democratic performance. Several years ago I read an...

03 November 2019 9,159 4 View