Civics and Civics Teaching 6

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.