Exploration of Teachers' Teaching Civic Engagement in Taiwan

• In Event: Teacher Education Through an International Lens

Abstract

This study is aimed at exploring how teachers make curricular-instructional decisions for developing students’ civic engagement. Using a case study design, this study documents how six social studies teachers make curricular decisions about whether to develop/ advocate for students’ civic engagement or not, and how teachers develop the curriculum and pedagogy for civic engagement. Findings illuminate that teachers’ family background and childhood memories—act as important factors that influence their decision making for teaching of civic engagement. In addition, the findings also illustrate teachers who act as public citizens involved in the public world develop students’ civic engagement, critical awareness and public talk.

Authors

• Yu-Han Hung, University of Houston - Downtown

• Natasha Perez, University of Houston-Downtown