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Changes to Citizenship Education at the Primary Level Under
the New Curriculum Reform: Comparison of Social Studies
Textbooks
Wenlan WANG
Abstract
Using the methods of frequency analysis and textbook analysis, this study
compares the changes to citizenship education delivered by two sets of social
studies textbooks published before and after the New Curriculum Reform in
Mainland China by the People’s Education Press. Results indicate that some
salient changes took place both in the relative proportion and content
composition of citizenship education. Specifically, the content involving
citizenship education increased from 28% to 52.5% in the new textbooks. In
the old textbooks, citizenship education focused mainly at the level of
national identity, but in the new textbooks, citizenship education expanded to
cover aspects like freedom, rights, responsibilities and active engagement.
However, in the new textbooks, the interpretation and analysis of the nature
of citizenship would need to be treated in much greater depth before a more
comprehensive understanding of what it means to be a citizen can be
manifested.
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王文嵐,西北師範大學教育學院、華南師範大學現代教育與研究開發中
心副教授,碩士生導師。
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