Current active course description (last updated 2024/25)
Social Studies 1D - To educate for participation
SAM1024
Current active course description (last updated 2024/25)
Social Studies 1D - To educate for participation
SAM1024
How should we educate for civic engagement, democracy and participation? In this course, you will acquire research-based knowledge and different perspectives on the political system, the welfare state, media and democracy. You will gain knowledge of key democracy didactic approaches. You will develop your skills for critical thinking, debate and dialogue.
Through the subject renewal (LK20) which was introduced in 2020, Norwegian schools have been given a clearer mandate to educate for democracy and citizenship. According to the overall part of the curriculum, "The school shall promote democratic values and attitudes as a counterweight to prejudice and discrimination" and "The training shall promote support for democratic values and democracy as a form of governance". But what is democratic citizenship - and how can schools educate for democracy and citizenship? Is the school at all a democracy-forming institution? The subject addresses these and other questions about what it means to educate for social participation.
Admission to the study programme.
Knowledge
The student:
- Has knowledge of the Norwegian political system and the welfare state
- Has knowledge of different perspectives on democracy and citizenship in a school perspective
- Has knowledge of selected aspects of the media and the public, childhood and school
Skills
The student:
- Can discuss political challenges, including issues of ethics, values and attitudes
- Can apply varied methods of teaching democracy
- Can reflect critically on various aspects of democracy
General competence
The student:
- Can reflect critically and independently on information, ways of understanding and argumentation in public
- Can reflect critically and independently on key sociological and didactic questions within the subject
- Be able to participate in debates and professional dialogue on key issues on the subject
In addition to the semester fee and curriculum literature, it is assumed that the student has a laptop computer at his/her/their disposal.
Weekly campus-based teaching, consisting of lectures, group work and self-study. There are various work requirements, both individual and in groups, and of different forms (oral presentations, written submissions, digital products, etc.). There is a requirement that students deliver two work requirements in order to sit the exam, and an expectation of active participation in the course's Canvasroom.
The study program is evaluated annually by the students through course evaluations and study program evaluation. These evaluations are included as part of the university's quality assurance system.
Composite assessment. All parts must be approved/passed before you get a grade.
Compulsory attendance at teaching. Requirement of minimum 80% participation. Assessed asapproved/not approved.
Coursework requirements (AK) in the form of 2 assignments. Further requirements and information will begiven in the semester plan for the course. Assessed as approved/not approved.
individual oral examination, approximately 30 minutes. Grading scale A-F. Counts 100/100 of the grade.
None.
Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
SAM1006 - Social Studies 1, 1-7 - 7.5 credits
SAM1007 - Social Studies 1, 5-10 - 7.5 credits
