JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education

Current Issue

Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025)

Editors of this Issue

Johan Sandahl, Stockholm University, Sweden
Reinhold Hedtke, Bielefeld University, Germany
Igor Martinache, Université Paris-Nanterre, France
Mehmet Acikalin, Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
Tilman Grammes, University of Hamburg, Germany
Andrea Szukala, Augsburg University, Germany

As summer approaches, we can finally take a pause and momentarily step back from our duties at the universities. In this second issue of 2025, the Journal of Social Science Education is proud to present four original articles and a country report focusing on the historical development in the Czech Republic. We believe all of them bring new ideas and angles on social science teaching and learning. As the summer invites us to slow down and look anew at our own practices, we hope this issue can give inspiration and offer perspective on how our teaching can better support the development of knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes that students need to navigate and shape our societies. In these times, it seems more important than ever.

Published: 2025-07-03

Article - Open Call

Climbing the STAIRs: Assessing students’ social scientific reasoning skills

Thomas Klijnstra, Geerte Savenije, Chiel Huijskes, Carla van Boxtel
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Going beyond the model: Characteristics of civic visual literacy

Ann-Sofie Jägerskog, Malin Tväråna
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Covering the news to develop students’ understanding of political responsibility in social studies classrooms?

Roger Olsson, Martin Jakobsson
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Educational content selection in human rights education at the early childhood education and care level

Anette Ringen Rosenberg
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Editorial

Editorial

Johan Sandahl, Reinhold Hedtke, Igor Martinache, Mehmet Acikalin, Tilman Grammes, Andrea Szukala
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Country Report

Civic learning in Czech educational debate: Changes of the concept in the 20th century between educational sciences and school practice

Tomas Kasper, Dana Kasperova
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Current News

New Issue:

We are very happy to inform you about our new issue of the Journal of Social Science Education (JSSE):
JSSE 2-2025 edited by Johan Sandahl, Reinhold Hedtke, Igor Martinache, Mehmet Acikalin, Tilman Grammes and Andrea Szukala

Calls for Papers	Advance Access Articles
Open and Permanent Call for Papers Thematic Issues Open Call for Papers Call for Book Reviews The editorial team of the Journal of Social Science Education kindly invites authors to submit papers. The JSSE is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal for research on teaching and learning in the broad field of social science education.	Articles are published as Advance Access when they have successfully passed the review process and a final version is available. This is initially placed in the Advance Access Articles issue of the current volume and will later appear in a regular JSSE issue.
Country Reports	Focus and Scope
Country reports aim to facilitate researchers’ access to colleagues, journals, professional associations and current educational polices in the respective countries. The JSSE offers a wide range of country reports (link).	The Journal of Social Science Education is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal which publishes high-quality articles on teaching and learning in the interdisciplinary field of social science education. Published since 2002, the JSSE is a quarterly with thematic issues which, nevertheless, also runs a permanent open call.
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