Creating the Citizen: Critical Literacy, Civics, and the C3 Framework in Social Studies

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Author(s): Steve Masyada (University of Central Florida, USA)and Elizabeth Yeager Washington (University of Florida, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 21
Source title: Research Anthology on Citizen Engagement and Activism for Social Change
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3706-3.ch004

Keywords: Civic Engagement / Civic Engagement & Social Justice / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter presents an approach to civic education that integrates critical literacy with the research-based promising practices of civic education and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies Standards. The authors present a definition of critical literacy that reflects a broad-based approach to the concept while exploring what critical literacy may look like within a civic education classroom and the ways in which this reflects a particular approach to good citizenship. Perceived connections between critical literacy, the promising practices, and the dimensions of the C3 Framework are illustrated throughout the chapter, and the authors provide a real-world example to demonstrate what integration may look like in practice through either extra-curricular or classroom-based student engagement.

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