Att ta sig an världen : Lärare diskuterar innehåll och mål i samhällskunskapsämnet
| Autor: | Sandahl, Johan |
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| Jazyk: | švédština |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Civics
Social studies Civic teaching Social studies teaching Civic didactics Social studies didactics First order concepts Second order concepts Democratic socialisation Civic literacy Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies) Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier) Didactics Didaktik |
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| Popis: | The focus of this investigation is civics in the Swedish upper secondary school. In addition to subject matter, civics is also an agent for democratic socialisation. The study explores and analyses the reflections of six teachers on their teaching about globalisation. These reflections, or voices, are researched through interviews and classroom observations. The starting point is the teachers’ description of content and goals in their teaching. The overall aim is to identify and analyse first and second order concepts in their teaching and analyse the relationship between the concepts and democratic socialisation. Despite the strong position of civics as one of the main subjects in school curricula very little research has been done. By focusing on one substantial case, globalisation, this study tries to reach beyond the various topics covered in civics. In order to understand civics teaching the researcher use the history didactic terms of first and second order concepts to find a new way to explore and understand civics. Manifested in the teachers’ voices are ideas on how to organise, analyse, interpret and critically review discourses in society. The second order concepts of civics found in the teachers’ voices are social science perspectives, social science causality, social science inference, social science evidence and social science abstraction. In order to reach their goals in civics the teachers underline the importance of using second order concepts. When pupils work more scientifically they develop a way of thinking about society and they have to challenge their set opinions about different topics. Therefore, the second order concepts are important for achieving civic literacy. |
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