Journal of Social Science Education (JSSE - Universität Bielefeld)
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Finanzinformierte Bürger_innen, bürgerbestimmtes Finanzsystem: Ein Essay aus Anlass des International Handbook of Financial Literacy
Get PDFZielsetzung: Überall in der Welt sieht der dominante Diskurs „Finanzbildung“ als notwendig und ausreichend an, um das Wohl Einzelner und der Gesellschaft zu verbessern.Erkenntnisse: In diesem Essay wird argumentiert, dass Finanzbildung weder notwendig noch ausreichend ist und dass die Förderung der Finanzbildung ein abwegiger Ansatz ist, um unzureichende Finanzierung von Renten, Überschuldung, Finanzkrisen und andere soziale Missstände in den Griff zu bekommen, wie es Regierungen und Pädagog_innen von dieser Maßnahme erhofft haben. Stattdessen wird hier angeregt, das Ziel von Finanzbildung darin zu sehen, finanzinformierte Bürger_innen heranzuziehen, die die Fähigkeit zum bürgerschaftlichen Engagement besitzen, das eine von den Bürger_innen bestimmte Wirtschaftspolitik und Finanzregulierung hervorbringen kann
Patriotic Celebrations in Educational Commemoration Practices in Ukraine
Get PDFPurpose: This study aims to provide information on the main tendencies across the transformation of the official holidays calendar in Ukraine over the last decades and to demonstrate its influence on school celebrations. Also discussed here is the role of these factors in the parallel but sometimes contradictory processes of the students’ civic identity formation.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The article is based on documentary analysis, an interdisciplinary literature review and an examination of current practices with regard to national holidays in Ukraine. Patriotic rituals are analyzed through examples and evidence of school celebrations of the main calendar dates, including audiovisual materials in different school settings. The authors’ observations have been corroborated with evidence from Ukrainian students and teachers as seen in the results of the questionnaire. These reflect their perception and experience of school celebrations.
Findings: The results demonstrate that the transformation of the official holidays calendar in Ukraine has had an impact on school commemoration practices. This in turn has become a factor in the formation of students’ civic identity. School patriotic rituals reflect a contradiction between the discourses of citizenship, patriotism and national upbringing in an emergent democracy in the continuing context of military conflict
Review of the Book: Broom, Catherine, Ed. 2016. Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized World: Citizenship Education in Comparative Perspective, Palgrave MacMillan
Get PDFCivic Education under Pressure? A Case Study from an Austrian School
Get PDFWhen the politician Roman Haider of the party Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ – Freedom Party of Austria) caused the interruption of a lecture about political extremism in an Austrian school in spring 2017, a heated debate erupted over the place of politics in school education. While Haider accused the lecturer of political propaganda, teachers, students and political opponents were upset about this seeming act of censorship. The controversy raises important questions over the aims and principles of civic education, which will continue to engage teachers and educationalists.
Review of the Books: Eribon, Didier. 2013. Returning to Reims, Los Angeles/CA, Semiotext(e). Louis, Édouard. 2017. The End of Eddy. London, Harvill Secker
Get PDFEribon, Didier. 2009. Retour à Reims. Une théorie du sujet, Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard.Louis, Édouard. 2014. En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, Paris, Éditions du Seuil.Eribon, Didier. 2016. Rückkehr nach Reims. Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag.Louis, Édouard. 2016. Das Ende von Eddy, Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer Verlag
Discourses of Multilingualism, Identity and Belonging: The View of Arabic Bilinguals in the UK
Get PDFPurpose: This sociolinguistic paper discusses the relationship between language and belonging from the perspective of Arabic-English speaking bilinguals. It explores what knowledge of language(s) means for the minority language speaker and investigates the challenges, consequences and opportunities multilingualism poses for its speakers in a globalised era that is fraught with re-imagining nationalism, country, security, loyalty, and belonging. The project reported in this paper aimed to (1) understand the symbolisms the Arabic language held for its speakers, (2) understand the ramifications knowledge of Arabic had for these bilinguals; and (3) explore how second generation Arabic heritage speakers define their identities and feelings of belonging to the UK.
Method: Sixty-two people took part in the project; data was collected through a short survey followed up by interviews that further explored issues of multilingualism, identity and belonging. Data from interviews and qualitative responses from the survey were analysed thematically in light of Ingrid Piller’s emerging linguistic social justice framework.
Finding: The findings suggest that English and Arabic are equally important to speakers; additionally Arabic is highly symbolic for reasons of religion, family, and cultural ties. The results however, also point to the apprehensiveness speakers have in using Arabic in public because they fear that they may be deemed too different, weird, abnormal, dangerous, disloyal or untrustworthy. The data implies that such hesitation leads to an anxiety of being viewed as ‘other’ and challenges how some young people envision their current and future belonging to the UK society
Finance-Informed Citizens, Citizen-Informed Finance: An Essay Occasioned by the International Handbook of Financial Literacy
Get PDFPurpose: Throughout the world, the dominant discourse treats “financial literacy” as both necessary and sufficient to improve the well-being of individuals and society.Findings: This essay argues that financial literacy is neither, and that promoting financial literacy is a perverse way to address the inadequate retirement funding, overindebtedness, financial crises, and other social ills that have inspired governments and educators to pursue it. In its place, this essay suggests that the aim of financial education ought to be to foster finance-informed citizens, who have the capacity for civic engagement that can create citizen-informed economic policies and financial regulation
Inspecting School Social Quality: Assessing and Improving School Effectiveness in the Social Domain
Get PDFPurpose: School inspection of school social quality is, in contrast to inspection in the cognitive domain, still in its early phase of development. While schools are shown to affect social outcomes, the interplay of mechanisms makes it difficult to isolate the effect of the school. This paper aims to evaluate different approaches to inspecting school social quality.Methodology: Based on a school effectiveness model, we consider what aspects could be taken into consideration to evaluate school social quality.Findings and implications: Using insights from inspection of cognitive outcomes, we present three ideal-type models of inspection, focusing on outcomes, school improvement, or process. There is as of yet no clear best approach to inspecting school social quality, as inspection of school quality can influence school performance in a range of ways. Implications of the described models and possible strengths and weaknesses are discussed
Changing Attitudes, Changing Behaviors. Conceptual Change as a Model for Teaching Freedom of Religion or Belief
Get PDFPurpose: The purpose is to demonstrate that conceptual change theory and strategies can be applied to areas of the social science, such as human rights education on FORB.Design/methodology/approach: The theoretical scope of this paper is conceptual change theory and is intended to introduce the theory and practice of conceptual change in teaching about FORB in social sciences and how it was used in training teachers.Findings: Conceptual change theory and strategies were found to be effective in teaching about FORB.Practical implications: This study introduces the use of conceptual change theory and strategies in teaching about human rights
