ERIC Number: EJ1476054
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-7925
EISSN: EISSN-1469-3623
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Citizenship Education within the Context of Increasing Diversity and under the Threat of Deteriorating Democracies: The Case of Türkiye
Ozge Karakus-Ozdemirci1; Hanife Akar2
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, v55 n5 p868-886 2025
There is an increasing nationalism endemic globally that needs profound consideration in education research. Through this paper, we aim to landscape discourses in citizenship education within the context of nationalism and diversity in Türkiye as a developing country subjected to dramatic in-migration of displaced people within a decade, let alone the internal migration trends inter-regionally. Therefore, the narratives and discourses in the official curriculum documents (n = 12) and the 4th-grade textbooks (n = 12) are analysed regarding the Vienna school's discourse-historical approach (DHA) to make a historical comparison based on the previous research in a global context where democracies are deteriorating globally and conflicts or wars grounded on ethnic, racial, religious, or cultural differences increasing sharply. Eventually, most of the findings revealed that the content, discursive strategies, and linguistic means are apt to reproduce the mono-cultural national identity and ignore the diversity within the official discourses.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Nationalism, Developing Nations, Curriculum, Textbooks, Grade 4, Grade 12, Language Usage, Discourse Analysis, Diversity, Migrants
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 12; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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Author Affiliations: 1Independent Researcher, Kilis, Turkey; 2Department of Educational Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey