Περίληψη:
Content in the Greek civic education curriculum presents significant
discrepancies and discontinuities with the practices, concepts, and
attitudes which frame the everyday lives of most students. The issues of
democracy, immigration, political freedom, political participation, and
integration of the European Union carry multiple and engaged meanings
for Greek adolescents. Research in progress, as well as the results of
the Youth and History, survey, verify the complexity of their thinking
on such issues. Civic education textbooks, however, formulate such
issues in a descriptive manner that emphasizes formal institutional
functioning over actual events and political processes. No explicit
connection is made between the lived experience of the students and the
formal approach of the textbooks. The civic education curriculum and
student attitudes and practices appear to be on two independent and
unconnected trajectories, thus depriving pupils of the opportunity for
reflective consideration of the interplay of textbook content and
everyday experience.
Συγγραφείς:
Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides, G
Kottoula, M
Dimopoulou, K
