Essays about: "citizenship education"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 56 essays containing the words citizenship education.

1. 6. Heroes for Change or Systems for Change? Is it time to reject heroism discourse? : A critical eye into a comic edutainment on SDGs

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Aisha Al-Daour; [2021]
   Keywords : Citizenship Education; Universalism; Post-colonialism; Comics; Superheroes; Semiotics;

   Abstract : This study seeks to extend observations on critical citizenship education by examining what the edutainment Comics Uniting Nations, which presents the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), may tell us about the UN view of imagined agency and citizenship, and subsequently, its broader view of development. Given that the SDGs’ message within the comics targets a global audience, the research work in this thesis puts the comic Heroes for Change to the test by surveying how the minority community in Gaza, occupied Palestine feel and situate themselves in the SDGs’ universal message. READ MORE

3. 7. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION - in context, in theory and in empirical research

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Axel Rödström; [2020-08-28]
   Keywords : deliberative democracy; citizenship education; philosophy of education;

   Abstract : This master's thesis problematizes the deliberative citizenship education model from three different perspectives. It contains three substudies, which all investigate how deliberative democracy has been modelled on deliberative criteria for discussions. READ MORE

4. 8. Constructing the National Identity Discourse in Citizenship Education Policy: The Case of Citizenship Education in England

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Gunay Mammadova; [2020]
   Keywords : National Identity; Citizenship; Citizenship Education; Diversity; England; Post-structuralism; Governmentality; Discourse Analysis; WPR Method; Social construction;

   Abstract : The thesis examines the governmental construction of national identity through its citizenship education policy in England, the country with heightened tensions in diversity and identity re-construction aligning with its mandatory citizenship classes since 2002. Theoretically framing the study on the Foucauldian post-structuralism, the thesis utilises Foucauldian-influenced ‘What is the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) method by Bacchi that presents the government as a problem-producer. READ MORE

5. 9. The value of citizenship in a British Overseas Territory : Formal and substantive British citizenship in Montserrat

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Patrik Henriksson; [2019]
   Keywords : British Overseas Territory; citizenship; formal citizenship; identity; international relations; Montserrat; partnership; substantive citizenship; United Kingdom;

   Abstract : This thesis takes part in the discussion of the of citizenship and what it means to be a citizen within the social aspects. In 2002, The British Overseas Act conferred British citizenship to Montserratians and other British Overseas Territories Citizens. READ MORE

6. 10. A study of students' perspective on the teaching-learning activity in a digital society

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Sabina Bokhari Irminger; [2019]
   Keywords : learning; digital; students; hand writing; typing; computer; school; note taking; opinions;

   Abstract : This case study looks at upper-secondary school students’ opinions about the use of digital and non-digital tools in the classroom. One of schools’ most important aims is to prepare students for a well-adapted citizenship. READ MORE