Connie Flanagan, Professor of Youth Civic Development Dept. of Agricultural and Extension Education

Penn State University/Social Contract in Virtual Worlds Research Group
http://agexted.cas.psu.edu/faculty/Flanagan.html

Three Expertise Keywords:
civic-engagement, political-activism, social-contract

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http://agexted.cas.psu.edu/faculty/Flanagan.html

Why Digital Media and Learning?

I am interested in exploring how, in a virtual public space with few rules or constraints, people negotiate the meaning of “community” and the terms of the “social contract” that bind them together.

Recent Posts:

1. Connie Flanagan: Framing the Virtual Social Contract (September 13, 2007)

Description of Current Work:

My current work focuses on how youth interpret the social contract with particular attention to the development of social trust and civic engagement in adolescence and young adulthood. 

Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:

Flanagan, C., Cumsille, P., Gill, S., & Gallay, L. (in press).  School and community climates and civic commitments: Processes for ethnic minority and majority students. Journal of Educational Psychology.

Flanagan, C. (in press).  Private anxieties and public hopes: The perils and promise of youth in the context of globalization. In J. Cole & D. Durham, (Eds.), Figuring the Future: Children, Youth, and Globalization (pp. 197-247).  Santa Fe, N.M.: SAR Press.

Watts, R.J., & Flanagan, C.A.  (2007). Pushing the envelope on youth civic engagement: A developmental and liberation psychology perspective.  Journal of Community Psychology, 35 (6), 779-792.

Flanagan, C.A., Gallay, Gill, S., Gallay, E.E., & Nti, N.  (2005). What does democracy mean?  Correlates of adolescents’ views.  Journal of Adolescent Research, 20 (2), 193-218.