Journal of Education and Human Development

Citizenship School Knowledge and Teaching: Modern and Post-Modern Influences
Gerasimos Koustourakis, Anna Asimaki, Eleni Sianou - Kyrgiou

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to search the impact of the modern and postmodern logic in the formation of the school knowledge regarding the subject of the Citizenship Education and its teaching in contemporary Greek Primary School. The most important findings of this research show that the school knowledge of social and political studies and the instructions given for their teaching management follow the logic of modernism, while postmodern influences are found mainly in the application of the educational package, that contains the educational software, and in the possibility given to the educator to develop teaching strategies through the adoption of various teaching methods.

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