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Maria Jansson; Patrik Johansson; Johan Sandahl – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: The article explores how the tension between embracing and scrutinising democracy can be productively overcome through social science teaching about democracy that focuses on trust as a subject content. Design/methodology/approach: Empirical materials were collected through focus group interviews before and after an inquiry-based teaching…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Johanna Jormfeldt – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the link between upper secondary school students' experiences of school democracy and their future role as democratic citizens, focusing on a comparison between men and women. Design/methodology/approach: The data derives from a questionnaire conducted to all last year upper secondary school students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Gender Differences, Voting
Lozano Parra, Saro; Bakker, Cok; van Liere, Lucien – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to understand the debate about what constitutes good education in the Netherlands. The meaning of the concept of democracy in these public debates is divergent and rather diffuse. If teachers, citizens, advisory councils, and the Dutch government agree that democracy ought to be anchored in future education, we first and…
Descriptors: Democracy, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Mathé, Nora Elise Hesby – Journal of Social Science Education, 2020
Purpose: Few studies have examined student teachers' perceptions of teaching materials on democracy. For the purpose of addressing how teacher education in social science might contribute to student teachers' qualifications for teaching democracy, this study investigated student teachers' perceptions of the 'Democracy Cake' as a set of teaching…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Student Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Sykas, Theodosios; Peonidis, Filimon – Journal of Social Science Education, 2022
Purpose: We discuss and preliminarily evaluate the SCA, a novel educational experiment that takes place in a Greek high school. Drawing on contemporary educational and political theory as well as the rich history of democratic ideas SCA has a twofold aim: to enable students to substantially participate in direct democratic decision-making…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High School Teachers, Democracy
Neumann, Richard – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
The primary purpose of this essay is to further understanding of the relationship between social education programs in public schools in the United States and the health of its democracy. A secondary purpose is to encourage reflection on the condition of democracy in other countries and the adequacy of social education programs in these countries…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Public Schools
Marej, Katarina – Journal of Social Science Education, 2020
Purpose: The article reconsiders and explicates the role of academia within and for society and suggests quality standards for normative research. Approach: The article analyses and discusses transdisciplinary procedures for citizenship education research in democracies. Findings: Paradigmatic decisions concerning ontology, axiology, epistemology,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Transformative Learning, Professionalism, Educational Research
Guérin, Laurence – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: The main goal of this article is to learning define and justify group problem solving as an approach to citizenship education. It is demonstrated that the choice of theoretical framework of democracy has consequences for the chosen learning goals, educational approach and learning activities. The framework used here is an epistemic theory…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Problem Solving, Participative Decision Making, Cooperative Learning
Kopinska, Violetta – Journal of Social Science Education, 2019
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the shape of current civic education in Polish schools. Methodology: The results of the analysis presented in this article are based on the following research question: What shape of civic education can be reconstructed on the basis of the researched sources? The method of collecting data is finding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Core Curriculum
Budde, Jürgen; Weuster, Nora – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: Class council has become a popular approach for character education and democracy learning in German schools. However, it is not clear if the expectations are met in social practice. Approach: The data was gained with an ethnographical multiple method approach within three contrasting secondary schools. The study is informed by practice…
Descriptors: Values Education, Democratic Values, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Zerkowska-Balas, Marta; Wenzel, Michal – Journal of Social Science Education, 2020
Purpose: The objective of the paper is to present the effects of the evaluation study of the Polish project "Youth Vote +: Social and civic activation of young people" -- a comprehensive education program in the field of civic engagement, based on three practical pillars: conscious electoral participation (Pillar 1), involvement in civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Program Evaluation, Adolescents
Poznyak, Svitlana; Lokshyna, Olena; Zhadan, Iryna – Journal of Social Science Education, 2022
Purpose: The paper provides an overview of the current state of school social science education in Ukraine, whose development is considered in the context of its internal and external challenges. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis of the regulatory documents, school social science curriculum and course syllabi as well as publications and…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Teaching Methods, Barriers, Course Descriptions
Commentary: The Failure of Social Education or Just Going down the Road of Post-Democratic Politics?
Menezes, Isabel – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
The paper "American democracy is distress: The failure of social education" presents several "symptoms of democracy's dysfunction in the United States". These include the extreme reliance on campaign contributions, giving the donors--economic elites and groups representing business, frequently operating at a transnational…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Foreign Countries
Morelli, Umberto – Journal of Social Science Education, 2019
Purpose: To stress the existential crisis of European integration and the need to shape the European citizen, who forms the foundations of unification, which can no longer be based only on economic conditions. Methods: Analyse the contradictions in the integration method adopted so far by member states and the fallacious solutions proposed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Citizenship Education, Democratic Values
Bacia, Ewa – Journal of Social Science Education, 2019
Purpose: The article intends to analyse the manner in which banished soldiers are presented in the new history curriculum at schools in Poland as an example of the politics of memory. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is a case study of the phenomenon of banished soldiers in the Polish public discourse. It includes the following issues:…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Case Studies, Politics, Memory