Main content:
Prengel Year
Course:
Children help shape democracy
Political education at primary level
Admission requirements
STEOP, children experience time and space
Semester: 6
Orientation
Social peace
Focus
The future requires shared responsibility
Aim
Children grow up in a globalized and heterogeneous society. In order to be able to professionally meet the resulting opportunities and challenges in everyday school life, scientific fundamentals and didactic methods are required. The aim of the course is to promote trust in science and democracy in order to see oneself as part of the global community and to be able to help shape it.
Content
- Didactic concepts for early political education
- Historical and democracy-building narratives
- Opportunities for participation
- Awareness of democratic political connections
- Biographical work to promote trust in science and democracy
- Political background of current events
- Scientific fundamentals of democratic policy
- Power of language in media and politics
- Intercultural and racism-critical educational work
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The graduates ...
- know different didactic concepts in order to be able to individually support students in their acquisition of skills in the area of political education.
- are able to prepare historical and democracy-building narratives based on the current state of scientific and didactic discussion for the primary level.
- know the possibilities of citizen participation, discourses in public spaces and in the media society as well as concepts of global citizenship education.
- develop an awareness of the democratic political connections of the past, present and future.
- expand central and interdisciplinary skills as well as trust in science and democracy by studying selected biographies.
- question and discuss historical and current political events and use sources and representations to classify them.
- know how democracy has developed historically and can differentiate it from other forms of rule.
- develop a reflexive habitus for language as an instrument of power in digital and analogue media and in political discourse.
- take multilingualism and heterogeneity into account in everyday school life through didactic concepts of intercultural education and counteract forms of exclusion (racism, anti-Semitism, ---)
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Diversity/inclusion
- Intercultural education/multilingualism
- Media education
- Civic education
- Reflexive gender pedagogy and gender equality
- Language education
- Economic and consumer education
Teaching and learning methods
Seminar work, excursion, e-learning formats 1, 2, 3, 4
Languages
German/English
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Focus
Type of course
Seminar (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance
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