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Geography and Political Skills: A Case Study in a School of Education

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dc.creator Sylvain Doussot
dc.date 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:13:34Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:13:34Z
dc.identifier 1611-9665
dc.identifier 1618-5293
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/d57fba2c6f9848509ff6e5490e8b131f
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/16118
dc.description This article is a case study based on the work of a group of students being trained to teach. They design a lesson for 10-11-year-old pupils on geography and education for sustainable development and aim at linking civic and social skills to scientific geography. This goal is changed in this case study when the prevailing idea about elations between school knowledge and “…educations” (citizenship education, environmental education) is put into question: disciplines such as geography are serving the development of citizenship skills in order to promote a critical education instead of a standard one. Furthermore, based on philosophy, history and sociology of science this case study offers alternative ideas of understanding how pupils can become critical citizens. These ideas focus on the hypothesis regarding a general skill often unseen though essential to any critical approach to world problems: which knowledge should be usedwhen? In this perspective, geographical knowledge refers less to “knowing something” than to scientific, collective and linguistic practices specific to the viewpoints of various scientific disciplines, in particular the construction of spatial problems.
dc.language English
dc.language German
dc.publisher Bielefeld University
dc.relation http://www.jsse.org/2012/2012-04/doussot-jsse-4-2012
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1611-9665
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1618-5293
dc.source Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 11, Iss 4, Pp 30-48 (2012)
dc.subject geography
dc.subject criticism
dc.subject skills
dc.subject problems
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.title Geography and Political Skills: A Case Study in a School of Education
dc.type article


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