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Swift Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
August 2018 Vol. 4(2), pp. 023-027
ISSN: 2986-9811
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Original Research Paper
On Teaching Objectives and the Teaching Methodology of Sociopolitical Education Subjects
Georgios D. Bikos
School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece - Pedagogical Dept. of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - Department of Archives, Library Science and Information Systems, University of Western Attica, Athens, Greece (tutor on contract at the Emeritus Professor level) - School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Athens, Greece
*Corresponding Author E-mail: g_bicos@yahoo.gr
Accepted 18th July, 2018
Abstract
After we refer to the content and teaching objectives that political education school subjects should exhibit in order to promote critical political thinking and political participatory attitudes among students –to increase the probability of them becoming active citizens, following a democratic path, when they are adults–, we stress that political education can be offered by all theoretical subjects, explaining analytically why this is possible.
Keywords: political culture, active citizen, critical thinking, Curricula, teaching methodology.
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