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oapen-20.500.12657-472622021-03-16T01:44:45Z Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education Biseth, Heidi Hoskins, Bryony Huang, Lihong Education, general Educational Policy and Politics Teaching and Teacher Education Assessment and Testing Citizenship Education ICCS 2016 Democratic education Digital citizenship School climate Sustainable democracy IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Analysis of data from ICCS Young Nordic citizens Civic and citizenship education in the nordic countries Future sustainable democracies Open access ICCS 2009 Environmental citizenship Education Educational strategies & policy Teacher training bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies & policy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher & further education, tertiary education::JNMT Teacher training This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to educators at all levels, from school education through to teacher education. Nordic countries have long traditions of democracy and their students have performed relatively well in the ICCS assessments. Nonetheless, citizenship education continues to evolve and has received increasing attention in recent educational reforms, indicating policymakers understanding that schools play an important role in establishing democratic values among future citizens. Data from ICCS can be used to analyze, discuss, and reflect on the status of civic and citizenship education and can contribute to the discourse on the potential role of education in contributing to sustainable democracies for a common future. However, teaching citizenship and learning democracy are two different things. While young people can be taught about democracy in school, it is vital that schools work together with the wider community in which youth operate to strengthen civic understanding and values for all young people regardless of their social and economic background. 2021-03-15T13:28:28Z 2021-03-15T13:28:28Z 2021 book ONIX_20210315_9783030667887_2 9783030667887 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47262 eng IEA Research for Education application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783030667887.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030667887 Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-030-66788-7 10.1007/978-3-030-66788-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 eda1f456-94ae-46ea-9f74-7e4217cf83cd 9783030667887 11 160 [grantnumber unknown] International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement IEA open access
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This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to educators at all levels, from school education through to teacher education. Nordic countries have long traditions of democracy and their students have performed relatively well in the ICCS assessments. Nonetheless, citizenship education continues to evolve and has received increasing attention in recent educational reforms, indicating policymakers understanding that schools play an important role in establishing democratic values among future citizens. Data from ICCS can be used to analyze, discuss, and reflect on the status of civic and citizenship education and can contribute to the discourse on the potential role of education in contributing to sustainable democracies for a common future. However, teaching citizenship and learning democracy are two different things. While young people can be taught about democracy in school, it is vital that schools work together with the wider community in which youth operate to strengthen civic understanding and values for all young people regardless of their social and economic background.
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