Literacy perspectives on the social science subjects in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.
This project seeks to contribute knowledge of how disciplinary literacy practices are shaped and transformed when teachers infuse knowledge about reading, writing and language in the teaching of social studies. Its specific focus is disciplinary literacy practices in middle-school related to geography, history and civics. Involving teachers who implement influential methods for working with subject-specific […]
Disciplinary literacy in the social-science subjects of history, religious education, civics and geography will be explored in this project. With the goal of strengthening, the students´ subject knowledge it will seek to identify and develop effective teaching strategies for the social science subjects in multilingual classrooms compulsory School (year 7-9). The project includes teaching newly […]
This project addresses the affective turn in social science didactics. The place of emotions in social science education is a newly risen topic in social science education. The social science classroom has often been seen as a place where emotions do not belong, the classroom only leaves space for rationality. At the same time education […]
