Kirschner, Charlotte (2024) The Datafication of Citizenship Education. Master thesis, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
Over the past decades, international organisations have gained prominent influence on educational governance due to their large-scale international assessments. Similarly, citizenship education has emerged as a central topic of discourse recently, as it is often regarded as the solution to various societal issues. Grounded in understanding citizenship as an essentially contested concept, this thesis undertakes a qualitative content analysis to examine the underlying normative assumptions of citizenship within the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), the only comprehensive large-scale international survey on citizenship education. The analysis reveals that the ICCS is not a neutral instrument but is influenced by a democratic, liberal perspective on citizenship alongside a transnational view emphasising global citizenship. Furthermore, the ICCS quantifies citizenship and reduces this contested concept to comparable data, contradicting its inherent complexity. This analysis highlights that the large-scale international assessment of ICCS is not purely numerical and neutral, urging a critical evaluation of the implications for citizenship education policy and practice.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Haaften, L.W. van |
| Degree programme: | Pedagogical and Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route: | Ethics and Education: philosophy, history and law [Master Pedagogical and Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2024 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2024 09:27 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3327 |
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