Lessons From the North: Exploring the Offerings of a Co-Constructed Circumpolar Civics Education Framework

• In Event: Critical Issues in Civic Education

Abstract

This paper draws on the collective work of a group of circumpolar scholars engaged in a National Science Foundation Grant (NSF 2127156) to build a framework for civics education that seeks to meet the dynamic needs of the (sub) Arctic North. While the vast majority of this interdisciplinary team of scholars are not situated in the field of social studies education this paper explores three themes surfaced through this emerging work that have important ramifications for the field. These include 1) A robust and pragmatic deconstruction of the idea and language of "civics" as a colonial project; 2) the powerful possibilities of regional and place-based civics education model, and 3) the promises of an inter-epistemological framework for civics education.

Author

• Elaine Alvey, University of Alaska - Southeast
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