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Pia Mikander; Henri Satokangas – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2025
Historically, education for active citizenship has not been a high priority in Finnish schools. In this discursive study of Finnish social studies textbooks for grades 4-6, we investigate how students are encouraged to practice active citizenship, where the focus of active citizenship lies, and how active citizenship is limited in antidemocratic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Curriculum
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Savage, Corey; Hübner, Nicolas; Biewen, Martin; Nagengast, Benjamin; Polikoff, Morgan S. – AERA Open, 2021
Well-informed decisions on curricular materials can be an efficient way to boost student achievement. Prior studies have employed experimental and quasi-experimental designs to investigate the effects of textbooks on mathematics achievement. This is the first study to consider textbook effects in social studies education. Within the context of a…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Textbooks, Textbook Selection, State Standards