Measuring competences for democratic culture: teaching human rights through religious education
This paper aims to present research on measuring competences for democratic culture. It describes the development of a multiple-item scale that measures competences in teaching democratic citizenship and human rights through religious education. A principal component analysis based on the 135 items...
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| author | MARIOS KOUKOUNARAS LIAGKIS Michalis Skordoulis Vasiliki Geronikou |
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This paper aims to present research on measuring competences for democratic culture. It describes the development of a multiple-item scale that measures competences in teaching democratic citizenship and human rights through religious education. A principal component analysis based on the 135 items of the Council of Europe’s Reference framework of competences for democratic culture was carried out in two phases, in order to construct and refine the scale. The result was a 52-item scale divided into six components. This was tested for its reliability, factor structure and validity; firstly on a sample of 123, and secondly on a sample of 403 secondary RE teachers (2018-19). The research scrutinises the concept of democratic competences as being the ability to mobilise and deploy relevant values, attitudes, skills, knowledge and/or understanding. It concludes that these competences are more complex structures than has been assumed.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d244694ffbaf43e2b00d8387809792392022-12-22T04:02:16ZengOsloMet — Oslo Metropolitan UniversityHuman Rights Education Review2535-54062022-01-015110.7577/hrer.4487Measuring competences for democratic culture: teaching human rights through religious educationMARIOS KOUKOUNARAS LIAGKIS0Michalis Skordoulis1Vasiliki Geronikou2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GreeceDemocritus University of Thrace, Dep. of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, GreeceNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dep. Of Theology, Greece This paper aims to present research on measuring competences for democratic culture. It describes the development of a multiple-item scale that measures competences in teaching democratic citizenship and human rights through religious education. A principal component analysis based on the 135 items of the Council of Europe’s Reference framework of competences for democratic culture was carried out in two phases, in order to construct and refine the scale. The result was a 52-item scale divided into six components. This was tested for its reliability, factor structure and validity; firstly on a sample of 123, and secondly on a sample of 403 secondary RE teachers (2018-19). The research scrutinises the concept of democratic competences as being the ability to mobilise and deploy relevant values, attitudes, skills, knowledge and/or understanding. It concludes that these competences are more complex structures than has been assumed. https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/human/article/view/4487 |
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| title_short | Measuring competences for democratic culture: teaching human rights through religious education |
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