Civics and Civics Teaching 6

Education facts

Code: SHAL06

Module 1 Teaching Research-Based Civics, 7.5 ECTS cr - planning and reporting their own teaching - desribing and using current and relevant civics pedagogy research as support in planning and analysing teaching Module 2 Subject and Subject-Specific Teaching Perspectives on Democracy, 7.5 ECTS cr - current democracy debate and research with relevance to school and learning are discussed - freedoms and rights and other democratic principles and how individuals learn them are discussed froma democratic citizen perspective - subject-specific teaching methodological theories and issues are applied to course content and their own teaching of it Module 3 Independent Degree Thesis 15 ECTS cr Under supervision, students carry out an independent project on an issue related to civics teaching: -formulating problem, aim and research questions -research ethical perspectives -choice of methodological aproach and arguments for its link to the chosen topic -performing systematic literature search in the chosen topic area -collecting, processing and compiling empirical material -analysing and discussing the empirical material in the light of theory, aim and research questions -writing a report of the study -defending the thesis -critically reviewing fellow-student's thesis.

Entry requirements

Completed 82.5 ECTS cr in social sceince courses, including the module Independent academic writing 7.5 ECTS cr of the course SHGL03, or equivalent

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Civics and Civics Teaching 6

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %