Students’ civic knowledge and perceptions of civic concepts in a private school: a comparative international perspective
Keywords:
Citizenship education, civic knowledge, democracy, IEA, comparative research
Abstract
The aim of this study was to provide a descriptive framework for patterns of civic knowledge; attitudes toward democracy and citizenship; and the civic school environment of lower-secondary-school students by examining the case of a private school in Ankara from an international comparative perspective. The student questionnaire utilized in the IEA 1999 Study was adapted and used to collect data from a sample of 196 adolescents attending a private school. In general, Turkish students scored higher than the international mean in terms of civic knowledge related to political rights, the function of laws, free elections and gender discrimination. In addition, when compared to their international counterparts, the Turkish study group appeared to have a more conventional concept of citizenship, with a particularly strong emphasis on secularity.
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2009.http://www.post16citizenship.org/files/033_BernardCrick_WHAT_IS CITIZENSHIP.pdf.
Doğanay, A. (2010). What does democracy mean to 14-year-old Turkish children? A comparison with results of the 1999 IEA Civic Education Study. Research Papers in Education, 25 (1), 51-71.
Edirisingha, P. (2000). The European Commission. In citizenship and governance education in Europe: A critical review of literature. In J. Holford & P. Edirisingha (Eds.), Unpublished Framework 5 funded project report submitted to the Commission of the European Communities (pp 181-195). Guildford: University of Surrey, UK.
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GHK Report on active citizenship Education study (2007). Retrieved August 2009 http://ec.europa.eu/education/pdf/doc248_en.pdf
Green, A. (1997). Education and state formation in Europe and Asia. In K. J. Kennedy (Ed.), Citizenship education and the modern state (pp. 9-26). London: Routledge.
Gündoğdu, K., & Yıldırım, A. (2010). Voices of home and school on democracy and human rights education at the primary Level: A Case Study. Asia Pacific Education Review, 11, 525-532
Hand, M. & Pierce, J. (2011). Patriotism in British schools: Teachers’ and students’ perspectives.
Educational Studies, 37 (4), 405-418.
HDR (2013). Human development reports: “Indicators by country.” Retrieved February 2014, http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/TUR
Holford, J., & Edirisingha, P. (2000). Introduction. In J. Holford, & P. Edirisingha (Eds), Citizenship and governance education in Europe: A critical review of literature (pp. 1-20). Unpublished Framework 5 funded Project Report Guildford: University of Surrey, UK.
İçduygu, A., Çolak, Y., & Soyarık, N. (1999). What is the matter with citizenship? A Turkish debate.
Middle Eastern Studies, 35(4): 187 – 208.
Isac, M. M., Maslowski, R., & van der Werf, G. (2011). Effective civic education: An educational effectiveness model for explaining students' civic knowledge. School Effectiveness and School Improvement: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice, 22 (3), 313-333.
Kadıoğlu, A. (1998). Citizenship and individuation in Turkey: The triumph of will over reason, Cahiers d'Etudes sur la Méditerranée Orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien. Online. Retrieved February 2014 http://cemoti.revues.org/34 .
Kariko, S.(2009). Europeanism, conformity, youth: A philosophical outlook. The New Educational Review, 17
(1): 80-90.
Kazamias, A. M. (2009). Paideia and Politeia: Education, and the polity/state in comparative education. In R. Cowen & A.M. Kazamias (Eds.), International Handbook of Comparative Education (pp. 161-168). London: Springer.
Keser Aschenberger, F. (2014). Constructing modern Turkish citizens: From Ottoman times to the 21st Century.
In E. Vickers and K. Kumar, Constructing modern Asian citizenship (pp. 151-174). UK: Routledge.
Keyman, F., & İçduygu, A. (2005). Introduction: citizenship, identity and the questions of democracy in Turkey. In F. Keyman & A. İçduygu (Eds.), Citizenship in a global world: European questions and Turkish experiences (pp. 1–28). New York: Routledge.
Kepenekçi, Y. K. ve Gökçe, E. (2001). Vatandaşlık ve insan hakları eğitimi dersinin genel ve özel amaçları ile hedef davranışları üzerine bir inceleme. Vatandaşlık ve insan hakları eğitimi dersi öğretim programının değerlendirilmesi yuvarlak masa toplantısı. Ankara, Turkey,
Lawson, H. (2001). Active citizenship in schools and the community. The Curriculum Journal, 12 (2), 163-178.
Lee, W. O., Kennedy, J. J., & Ching Mok, M. M. (2013). Civic learning and its contexts. Educational Psychology, 33 (3), 235-236.
Saha, L. J. (2001). Education and active citizenship: Prospects and Issues. In J. Zajda (Ed.), Education and Society (pp. 13-21). Albert Park: James Nicholas Publishers.
Salmoni, B.A. (2004). Ordered liberty and disciplined freedom: Turkish education and republican democracy, 1923-50. Middle Eastern Studies, 40 (2), 80–108.
Schulz, W. (2002). Explaining differences in civic knowledge: Multilevel regression analyses of student data from 27 countries. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Schulz, W., Fraillon, J., Ainley, J., Losito, B., & Kerr, D. (2008). International civic and citizenship
education study: Assessment framework. Retrieved 2011 fromhttp://iccs.acer.edu.au/uploads/ICCS%20Assessment%20Framework/ ICCS%202008%2Full.pdf
Schulz, W., Fraillon, J., & Ainley, J. (2013). Measuring young people’s understanding of civic and
citizenship in a cross-national study. Educational Psychology, 33 (3), 283-313.
Tanrıöver, H.U. (2003). Ders kitaplarında cinsiyet ayrımcılığı. B. Çotuksöken, A., Erzan, A. Ve O. Silier (Ed.) Ders kitaplarında insan hakları: Tarama sonuçları (ss. 106-121). Nişantaşı: Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı.
Tezgel, R. (2008). Yeni ilköğretim programlarında insan haklaı vatandaşlık ve kentlilik eğitimi. Ankara: Araştırma Yayınları.
Torney-Purta, J., Lehmann, R., Oswald, H., & Schulz, W. (2001). Citizenship and education in twenty-eight countries: Civic knowledge and engagement at age fourteen. Amsterdam: IEA
Yılmaz, A., Sahin, C. T. ve Bengic, G. (2009). İlköğretim öğrencilerinin devlet, vatandaş ve insan hakları kavramlarına ilişkin algıları. 1st International Symposium on European Union, Democracy, Citizenship and Citizenship Education, Uşak, Turkey.
Yiğittir, S. (2007). İlköğretim 7. sınıf vatandaşlık ve insan hakları eğitimi dersinin gerçekleşme düzeyi.
Milli Eğitim, 173, 293-303.
Published
2016-06-01
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Akar, H., & Keser Aschenberger, F. (2016). Students’ civic knowledge and perceptions of civic concepts in a private school: a comparative international perspective. International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies (IJOCIS), 6(12), 115-132.
