Teacher Education and the Core of Citizenship Education for Young Children

• Abstract This paper is a critical reflection on the basic ideas underpinning the new teacher education programmes at Malmö University. The main idea has been to combine subject studies, didactics and pedagogy in teacher education. We claim that personal encounters are one of the prerequisites for student teachers to learn and in depth understand in order to be able to translate into teaching. In the paper we will present and discuss some examples of personal encounters in relation to Citizenship Education within the main-subject “Social Science Subject and Children’s Learning”. This will illustrates a possible way of the construction of meaning in teacher education.

Keyword

citizenship education

teacher education

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