A research-based pedagogical approach to civic education that focuses on 10 key areas: knowledge building, deliberation of current events, service learning, extracurricular opportunities, school governance, simulations of democratic practice, school climate reform, news media literacy, action civics, and socio-emotional learning.
Published in Chapter:
Creating the Citizen: Critical Literacy, Civics, and the C3 Framework in Social Studies
Steve Masyada (University of Central Florida, USA) and Elizabeth Yeager Washington (University of Florida, USA)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8082-9.ch005
Abstract
This chapter presents an approach to civic education that integrates critical literacy with the research-based promising practices of civic education and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies Standards. The authors present a definition of critical literacy that reflects a broad-based approach to the concept while exploring what critical literacy may look like within a civic education classroom and the ways in which this reflects a particular approach to good citizenship. Perceived connections between critical literacy, the promising practices, and the dimensions of the C3 Framework are illustrated throughout the chapter, and the authors provide a real-world example to demonstrate what integration may look like in practice through either extra-curricular or classroom-based student engagement.