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Visualizing civic values: Representations of idealized citizenship behaviours in images found in Nepalese social studies textbooks
- Source :
- Citizenship Teaching & Learning. 15:79-99
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Intellect, 2020.
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Abstract
- Citizenship and political education has increasingly been identified as an important component in educating young people for democratic citizenship. The National Curriculum Framework for School Education in Nepal 2007, the Nepalese social studies school curriculum, and textbooks explicitly underline the promotion of a democratic system and culture along with the development of civic and citizenship skills among Nepalese citizens. This article reports on a qualitative analysis of selected civic awareness images in Nepalese social studies textbooks using a ‘visual grammar’ framework. The analysis reveals that the images attempt to promote a message of national unity and respect for diversity in the country. However, the low quality black and white images and textbooks have some adverse teaching and learning implications for teachers and students and tend towards idealized representations.
- Subjects :
- White (horse)
Grammar
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
0507 social and economic geography
050301 education
General Social Sciences
National curriculum
Social studies
Promotion (rank)
Pedagogy
Sociology
050703 geography
0503 education
Curriculum
Citizenship
media_common
Diversity (politics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17511917
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Citizenship Teaching & Learning
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........73a86828ab36c6dd9c2105399b2a29b9