1. Democratic Citizenship Education
CD 446
Fall 2016

2. Democratic Citizenship Education
Focusing on collective process and cultural inequities
To promote social justice and collective action
1800s –the mid 1900s
Civil rights movement, feminist movement, disability movement, etc.
Social constructivist theory, critical theory, Marxism, and anti-positivism, etc.

6. How is Democratic Citizenship Education connected to teaching and learning?

8. Hidden Curriculum
“What one is taught can’t be separated from how one is taught” (EM, p.121)
What is not taught
The content not explicitly taught
But there also implicit curriculum on how to behave, how relate to one another, and what to expect, etc.

9. What are some aspects of the hidden curriculum in your own secondary or postsecondary education?

10. Hidden curriculum may reflect on values that are promoted or discouraged in the society
Schooling may actively participating in creating values and opportunities

11. DCE focused on
Participation: Understanding one’s part in the social dynamics of learning, including the collective processes through which knowledge is produced
Conscientization: the cultural dimensions of learning, focusing on the privileging and partialities that are knitted into established patterns of acting

13. Paulo Freire Quote Activity

14. What types of oppression have we witnessed or experienced?
Can you think of hegemony behind oppression?
Have you seen any collective movements to resist oppression in your education or in the society?