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Direct linkJan Löfström – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2025
The paper discusses the Finnish core curriculum (curriculum framework) for basic education, with focus on how lower secondary education in general, and history teaching specifically, is meant to develop the student's democratic citizenship. Developing the student's democratic citizenship is not an explicit aim of history teaching in the current…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship, History Instruction, Foreign Countries
Idunn Seland; Anders G. Kjøstvedt – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study analyses how "active democratic participation" is conceptualised by sixteen teacher educators from eight institutions of higher education across four Nordic countries and how these conceptualisations are translated into their own teaching. Teacher educators' strong adherence to a liberal discourse on democratic education may…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Cross Cultural Studies
Caroline Ferguson; Peter Brett – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2025
This study explores conceptualisations of global citizenship education expressed by teachers and students in international schools. Using qualitative research, three schools were investigated in the Netherlands, Finland, and Australia. Data for this study was drawn from phenomenological interviews with secondary school students, teachers, and…
Descriptors: International Education, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Teacher Attitudes
Pia Mikander; Henri Satokangas – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2025
Historically, education for active citizenship has not been a high priority in Finnish schools. In this discursive study of Finnish social studies textbooks for grades 4-6, we investigate how students are encouraged to practice active citizenship, where the focus of active citizenship lies, and how active citizenship is limited in antidemocratic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Curriculum
