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Publication Date: 2023-Jan
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Citizenship-as-Knowledge: How Perspectives from Bildung-Centred Didaktik Can Contribute to European Citizenship Education beyond Competence
Ryen, Erik; Jøsok, Evy
European Educational Research Journal, v22 n1 p39-57 Jan 2023
How can the teaching of knowledge in schools contribute to the development of students as individual human beings, with the capacity not only for problem solving within the existing structures of society but also for developing ideas and solutions that go "beyond the existing structures?" The purpose of this article is to bring this question to the forefront within the context of citizenship education (CE) through a theoretical analysis of the epistemology underpinning two dominant conceptualisations of teaching CE. The analysis shows that both the model of teaching "about," "through" and "for" democracy that underpins the understanding of CE in competence frameworks and the conceptualisation of CE as teaching directed towards "qualification," "socialisation" and "subjectification" that is used to criticise citizenship-as-competence fall short in accounting for how knowledge can play a part in taking us beyond the existing. Turning to Bildung-centred Didaktik, which has dealt extensively with questions of knowledge in relation to the formation of the individual subject, the article explores how a renewed focus on knowledge can contribute to answering the question that Joris et al. pose in the title of their article 'Citizenship-as-competence, "what else"?'
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Models, Epistemology, Teaching Methods, Democratic Values, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Citizenship, Competence
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