Noula, I orcid.org/0000-0003-1534-0246 (2018) Critical Thinking and Challenges for Education for Democratic Citizenship: an ethnographic study in primary schools in Greece. Educação & Realidade, 43 (3). pp. 865-886. ISSN 0100-3143
Abstract
Critical Thinking and Challenges for Education for Democratic Citizenship: an ethnographic study in primary schools in Greece. This article reports on an ethnographic multiple case study in Greece. It explores teachers’ practices regarding the education of critically thinking citizens ten years into the implementation of an integrated curriculum reform. By means of classroom observations and semi-structured interviews this research explored the role of critical thinking in the classrooms. Findings suggest that teachers refrain from practices that advance critical thinking skills and pupils’ empowerment. Instead they tend to implement traditional practices, while their work is largely determined by the standards of achievement set by University Entrance Exams and parents’ aspirations. The article concludes that prevailing expectations in the Greek primary school interfere with the development of pedagogical relationships that would promote critical thinking obstructing the attainment of the aims of the integrated curriculum reform and compromising the project for democratic citizenship.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Faculdade de Educação. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International. Available at: <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>. |
Keywords: | critical thinking; democratic citizenship; pedagogy; Critical Pedagogy; primary education |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2018 10:57 |
Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2018 11:00 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul |
Identification Number: | 10.1590/2175-623674799 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136816 |