Towards a citizenship literacy. : Contribution to the symposium Literacies across the school subjects within network 27 Didactics - Learning and Teaching at the ECER-conference in Helsinki, Finland Aug 24-26 20+10

• Is it possible to qualitatively distinguish a citizenship literacy from a mere amalgamation of the different school subject literacies (historical literacy, scientific literacy etc.), and what would such a distinction look like? Is it also possible to distinguish citizenship literacy from the DeSeCo project and its links to three kinds of literacy: reading, mathematical and scientific and how should the proposal made by DeSeCo of competencies be evaluated? I will draw on the distinction made by Douglas Roberts (2007) concerning scientific literacy, between what he calls vision I and vision II, where vision I “looks inward at science itself”, while vision II should “enable students to approach and think about situations as a citizen well informed about science would”. From that starting point I will ask the question whether there is a tension that implies vision I to be more related to narrower, more one-dimensional, test-based school knowledge and vision II to have as its aim a citizenship literacy offering scope for open communication between different perspectives. And, if that is the case, in what way could different literacy intentions be investigated and distinguished from each other?  

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

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citizenship literacy

literacy

didactics

competencies

Education

Pedagogik

Pedagogik

Education

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