Sökning: "civic skills"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden civic skills.
1. Samhällskunskap i ett föränderligt samhälle : Medborgarkompetenser och didaktiska utmaningar
Sammanfattning : Citizens of today’s society are expected to be able to evaluate, make choices, take responsibility and act independently locally, nationally and globally in order to participate in both formal and informal political systems. This study contributes to the research on Civics Education (Social Studies) by examining how teachers, working in the grades 7-9, meet contemporary society in their civics teaching. LÄS MER
2. Stewardship in an urban world : Civic engagement and human–nature relations in the Anthropocene
Sammanfattning : Never before have humans wielded a greater ability to alter and disrupt planetary processes. Our impact is becoming so noticeable that a new geological epoch has been proposed – the Anthropocene – in which Earth systems might no longer maintain the stable and predictable conditions of the past 12 millennia. LÄS MER
3. Information, identitet, medborgarskap : unga kvinnor berättar om val av preventivmedel
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study how young women’s information literacies are enacted in practices related to evaluation and use of information sources before choosing a contraceptive and thereby to discuss how these practices relate to the young women’s sexual and civic identities. A sociocultural perspective, which brings with it a view on information literacy as contingent and enacted in practices, is adopted. LÄS MER
4. Deliberativ undervisning – en empirisk studie
Sammanfattning : Since the early 2000s, the deliberative turn in democratic theory has influenced the debate on teaching. The proponents of deliberation in education have argued that deliberative teaching both enhances subject knowledge and democratic citizenship among students. LÄS MER
5. Power from Below? : The Impact of Protests and Lobbying on School Closures in Sweden
Sammanfattning : In recent decades, there has been a considerable expansion of citizen participation in protests and voluntary advocacy groups. To analyze this development, the social movement literature and the interest group literature have emerged. LÄS MER