{"title":"Review of the Books: Eribon, Didier. 2013. Returning to Reims, Los Angeles/CA, Semiotext(e). Louis, Édouard. 2017. The End of Eddy. London, Harvill Secker","authors":"Ulrich Glassmann","doi":"10.2390/JSSE-V17-I1-1817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/JSSE-V17-I1-1817","url":null,"abstract":"Eribon, Didier. 2009. Retour a Reims. Une theorie du sujet, Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard. Louis, Edouard. 2014. En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, Paris, Editions du Seuil. Eribon, Didier. 2016. Ruckkehr nach Reims. Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag. Louis, Edouard. 2016. Das Ende von Eddy, Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer Verlag.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131000558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth Political Engagement in Australia and the United States: Student Councils and Volunteer Organizations as Communities of Practice","authors":"Gary A. Homana","doi":"10.2390/JSSE-V17-I1-1674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/JSSE-V17-I1-1674","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Lave and Wenger’s Communities of Practice is presented as a conceptual framework for examining extracurricular activities as a part of democratic schools’ contribution to students’ civic engagement. Data from the IEA Civic Education Study is analyzed to investigate research questions on the association between participation in two civic communities of practice (student council and volunteer organizations) and two types of expected adult political participation as well as trust in political institutions in Australia and the United States. Method/Approach: The methodology examined data from students in nationally representative samples of schools that surveyed 14-year-olds in 1999. This was the most recent large scale study of civic education in which these two countries participated. Analysis of variance examined main effects and statistical interactions, especially by gender. Findings: Findings were that in both countries, participation in the two civic communities of practice was associated with higher levels of trust in political institutions and greater expectations to become an informed voter and an active citizen. The results also suggest that male and female students in the United States experience these communities of practice in different ways. Practical advantages to encouraging democratic communities of practice are important to the experience of democracy at school.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133078962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civic Education under Pressure? A Case Study from an Austrian School","authors":"Judith Breitfuss, Isabella Schild","doi":"10.2390/jsse-v17-i1-1820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/jsse-v17-i1-1820","url":null,"abstract":"When the politician Roman Haider of the party Freiheitliche Partei Osterreichs (FPO – Freedom Party of Austria) caused the interruption of a lecture about political extremism in an Austrian school in spring 2017, a heated debate erupted over the place of politics in school education. While Haider accused the lecturer of political propaganda, teachers, students and political opponents were upset about this seeming act of censorship. The controversy raises important questions over the aims and principles of civic education, which will continue to engage teachers and educationalists.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123774206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Transformation of Civic and Citizenship Education: Challenges to Educational Governance, Agency and Research - An Introduction","authors":"R. Hedtke, Claude Proeschel, Andrea Szukala","doi":"10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1785","url":null,"abstract":"and Economic Sociology and editor-in-chief of the JSSE. Research interests: philosophy of social science education, socioeconomic education, theory of socioeconomics, sociological market theory. Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Postfach 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany. Email: reinhold.hedtke@uni-bielefeld.de Andrea Szukala is Professor of Social Science Education at the University of Münster. Research Interests: Comparative civic education governance and citizenship, norms and values in civic education, inquiry learning and metacognition Scharnhorststraße 121, 48151 Münster Email: andrea.szukala@uni-muenster.de Claude Proeshel is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Lorraine (France) and researcher at the GSRL (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités) (EPHECNRS),PSL Research University, Paris. Research interests : politic and religion ; citizenship, regulation of diversity in democratic societies. GSRL, 27 rue Paul Bert, 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine Email: claude.proeschel@wanadoo.fr. Journal of Social Science Education Volume 16, Number 4, Winter 2017 DOI 10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v16-i4-1785","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129808229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Lefrançois, M. Ethier, Amélie Cambron-Prémont
{"title":"Making ‘Good’ or ‘Critical’ Citizens: From Social Justice to Financial Literacy in the Québec Education Program","authors":"David Lefrançois, M. Ethier, Amélie Cambron-Prémont","doi":"10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1682","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The Quebec Ministry of Education has introduced – as of September 2017 – a new mandatory course focusing on financial literacy and addressing such issues as credit scores, loans, taxes and budgets. This announcement has created intense educational debate on the raison d’etre and content of the course. This article will summarise the heated debate and will examine content knowledge and the type of ‘good’ citizens that the course seeks to create. Method: We use thematic content analysis to identify textual patterns and themes in the Quebec Education Program (QEP) pertaining to financial literacy. Findings: Our assumption is that the QEP reproduces and shapes a personally responsible citizen at the expense of systemic criticism and justice-oriented citizenship education, according to Westheimer and Kahne (2004)’s typology.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121214488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cosmopolitan Citizenship Education: Realistic Political Program or Program to Disillusioned Powerlessness? A Plea for A Critical Power Perspective within Global Citizenship Education.","authors":"A. Eis, Claire Moulin-Doos","doi":"10.4119/JSSE-852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4119/JSSE-852","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The aim of the research is to determine to what extent one can talk about “cosmopolitan citizenship” not only programmatically, but also as an already functioning entity. And what role can and should civic education play in the development of such a citizenship?Methods: A working definition of citizenship at the national, supranational, and global level is developed with the help of political theory and European and international law. Several theses on the understanding of cosmopolitan citizenship in Global Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainable Development programs are discussed thanks to a policy analysis of, for example, UNESCO documents.Findings: Supranational programs and German curriculum-recommendations are mostly reduced to the level of rights-holders and if “political action” is envisaged then it is mostly focused on its individual dimension of (private) social responsibility i.e. in its post-political dimension. This lacks analysis of global power conflicts and of the question of democratic participation on supranational policy regulation. Practical implications: There are implications for curriculum development and implementation of educational policy.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115939797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Attitudes, Changing Behaviors. Conceptual Change as a Model for Teaching Freedom of Religion or Belief","authors":"M. Ramirez, T. M. Ramirez","doi":"10.2390/jsse-v16-i4-1692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/jsse-v16-i4-1692","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The purpose is to demonstrate that conceptual change theory and strategies can be applied to areas of the social science, such as human rights education on FORB. Design/methodology/approach: The theoretical scope of this paper is conceptual change theory and is intended to introduce the theory and practice of conceptual change in teaching about FORB in social sciences and how it was used in training teachers. Findings: Conceptual change theory and strategies were found to be effective in teaching about FORB. Practical implications: This study introduces the use of conceptual change theory and strategies in teaching about human rights.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131183773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Justification and Critique of Educational Reforms in Austria: How Teachers and Head Teachers (Re-)Frame New Governance","authors":"Doris Graß","doi":"10.4119/JSSE-851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4119/JSSE-851","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Against the backdrop of a new governance regime of schools in Austria, which combines policies of decentralisation and school autonomy with an accountability program of standardised outcome control, this article explores how the so called “agents of change” – teachers and headteachers – take up these ideas and corresponding governance instruments and frame them on grounds of moral considerations. The aim is to present a theoretical framework for analysing – at the individual level – moments of critical evaluation and affirmative justification of more general political actions as well as of every day’s work practices.Approach: Drawing on the concept of orders of justification and the pragmatist theory of conventions, a qualitative, interview-study with 15 teachers and head teachers in Austrian middle schools was conducted with the intention to discover a repertoire of educational conventions applied by the actors to criticise or justify reform-based decisions, expectations and subjective claims to work.Findings: Besides presenting seven conventions, the article puts a special focus on arguments and corresponding conventions that – on one hand – characterise an economic perspective on schools and education (the market, industrial and flexible convention) and are thus important in deciding whether the new education governance regime is supported by an ‘economised’ constellation of frames that teachers and head teachers use to interpret their actions as well as others. One the other hand, the role of the civic convention receives special attention in relation to the aforementioned ones to include a further aspect into the diagnosis of an economisation of educational practices.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131283247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Science and the Good Citizen: The Genealogy of Traditionalist Paradigm of Citizenship Education in the American School Curriculum.","authors":"I. Ahmad","doi":"10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1581","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The purpose of this article is to chronicle paradigm shifts in American political science during the twentieth century and their influence on political scientists’ perspectives on pre-collegiate citizenship education curriculum. Methodology: The research questions explored in this article are concerned with the history of political scientists’ ideas about citizenship education. Therefore, historical method is used which involves an examination of evidence--primary sources. Those sources are the APSA’s ten reports and statements. Findings: In different decades of the twentieth century, the APSA committees and one taskforce prepared ten (10) reports and statements on pre-collegiate citizenship education which reflected three different paradigms in political science—Traditionalism, Behavioralism, and Post-behavioralism.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128753912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rise and Fall of Citizenship and Human Rights Education in Turkey.","authors":"Abdulkerim Şen, Hugh Starkey","doi":"10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2390/JSSE-V16-I4-1689","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: This article shows the effects of competing political forces on citizenship education in Turkey during the period of commitment to European Union (EU) accession (1999-2005). Methodology: It draws on textbooks, archival documents and interviews. Whilst Turkey had a history of civic education to promote a secular national ethos and identity, the post-Cold War democratisation movement encouraged the Turkish government in 1995 to attempt to internationalise civics by adding human rights themes. Findings: This effort occurred at a time when the hegemony of the secular nationalist establishment was challenged by the electoral rise of an Islamist party. Although Citizenship and Human Rights course suited the purposes of the secular nationalist establishment, after the EU recognised Turkey as a candidate in 1999, a new political Islamist government, elected in 2002, chose first to align the course with its ideology and later decided to repeal it. By exploring the evolution of the curriculum in a crucial period in which political power was switching from the ideology of secular nationalism to that of religious (Islamist) nationalism, the present study illustrates ways in which external and internal influences may affect citizenship education. In particular, it contributes to debates over the role of international agencies in curriculum change in citizenship education.","PeriodicalId":388043,"journal":{"name":"JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129952838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}