1-2012: Comparative Studies of Civic and Citizenship Education

Journal of Social Science Education:

Volume 11, Number 1, © JSSE 2012, ISSN 1618-5293

Comparative Studies of Civic and Citizenship Education:
Approaches, Results, Impacts, Alternatives

Call for Papers

Journal of Social Science Education (JSSE)

Issue 1/2012

The IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) investigated the ways in which young people in lower secondary schools are being prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a wide range of countries in Europe, Latin America, and the Asian-Pacific region. In pursuit of this purpose, the study has gathered data regarding civic knowledge, student dispositions and attitudes relating to democracy, citizenship and citizenship education. JSSE plans a special issue on comparative studies of civic and citizenship education, focusing on ICCS and other studies, and welcomes articles from a variety of perspectives:

• Contextual analysis of large-scale survey data
  
  

• Cross-national comparative studies relating to civics and citizenship of students
  
  

• Reflection of strategic policy aims and challenges (such as the EU Key competences in education) in ICCS findings
  
  and result from similar studies

  
  

• Impact of findings from large-scale surveys on national education and youth policies
  
  

• Using results from large-scale comparative studies in teaching and learning practices
  
  

• Achievements, potentialities, limitations, shortcomings of and alternatives to comparative large-scale studies of
  
  

  civic and citizenship education.

The editors invite articles that bring new perspectives and broaden the horizon of the domain of teenagers’ citizenship and citizenship education. We welcome articles from a variety of perspectives (e.g. political socialization, human rights and citizenship education, urban education, international development studies, education policy and pedagogical practices); a range of countries within and beyond Europe and with different educational systems; national and comparative studies.

The issue will contain:

• An editorial devoted to the key issues in the field

• 6-7 articles on various themes and approaches, each about 6-9000 words

• 2-3 book reviews on recent studies on young people’s citizenship education, each about 4-800 words
  
  

The following schedule and deadlines will be applied:

First submissions October 15, 2011

Final submissions January 19, 2012

Issue published April 15, 2012

Editors: Anu Toots, Institute of Politics and Governance, Tallinn University (Estonia), anuto@tlu.ee; Saskia De Groof, Department of Sociology, Free University of Brussels (Belgium) saskia.de.groof@vub.ac.be; Dimokritos Kavadias, Department of Political Sciences, Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, dimokritos.kavadias@vub.ac.be

Articles and reviews should be submitted to Anu Toots (anuto@tlu.ee), skype: anu.toots

We kindly ask all authors to follow the editorial guidelines of the JSSE:

www.jsse.org/info/authors-reviewers/author-instructions