Differences in Gender and Civic Education in Ukraine

Abstract

Evaluating the effectiveness of an internationally-developed civic education curriculum, this study randomly sampled 1,015 students to assess student learning about democracy in Ukraine. Statistically significant differences were found between male and female Ukrainian students who participated in the course. While this analysis discerns that boys seem to benefit more from the curriculum than girls, it also finds these differences to be minor. More importantly, the study verifies that while both boys and girls improve their knowledge of democratic content, they show no statistically significant difference in their improvement. Thus, the curriculum seems to have a positive effect on democratic attitudes among all of the students and, in particular, those of the male student population.

Citation

Craddock, A. (2006), "Differences in Gender and Civic Education in Ukraine", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-01-2006-B0001