Previous scholarship has examined how teachers’ civic knowledge and conceptions of citizenship influence their goals, pedagogical practices, and confidence in teaching citizenship, but few studies hav

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 6 representative gaps

• EXPLORING CITIZENSHIP AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN TÜRKİYE (2026) · doi

  This research has revealed a gap between teachers' understanding of citizenship and their classroom practices. Therefore, teacher training programs should focus more on democratic and participatory approaches to citizenship education, rather than solely on conceptual content. Teacher candidates should be equipped with skills in discussion-based teaching, creating a conducive classroom environment, and fostering community engagement. Future research could compare the relationship between teachers' beliefs and pedagogical practices across various contexts.

  Keywords: teachers citizenship classroom practices teacher revealed understanding training programs focus democratic participatory approaches education rather
• Civic Education in a Politically Polarized Era (2021) · doi

  Embedded within a research-practice partnership, this case offers timely insight into what civic education means to public school teachers in a politically polarized era and identifies three key problems of practice: teachers’ conceptualizations of civic education vary widely; teachers report an array of external challenges to integrating civics in their classrooms; and sociopolitical context differentially shapes teachers’ ideas about how to adapt their classroom practices.

  Keywords: teachers practice civic education embedded within partnership case offers timely insight means public school politically
• Toward Self-Authoring a Civic Teacher Identity: Service-Learning in Teacher Education (2017) · doi

  Previous scholarship has examined how teachers’ civic knowledge and conceptions of citizenship influence their goals, pedagogical practices, and confidence in teaching citizenship, but few studies have probed how teacher candidates develop identities as civic educators through community service-learning projects.

  Keywords: civic citizenship previous scholarship examined teachers knowledge conceptions influence goals pedagogical practices confidence teaching probed
• The civic classroom in higher education: Contested terrain (2015) · doi

  Abstract In order to better understand the college classroom as a site of potential citizenship education, this article connects the delimited literature of the contested purposes of citizenship in higher education with scholarship on education for citizenship and provides empirical evidence from an analysis of how macro contextual influences are worked out in the micro practices of pedagogy and curricular design.

  Keywords: citizenship education abstract order better understand college classroom site potential article connects delimited literature contested
• Understanding effective citizenship education in special needs education: Comparing regular primary education with special needs primary education (2025) · doi

  Whereas the role of some characteristics was not as expected and asks for further research, this study shed light on several important factors, such as the attention for specific learning goals in citizenship education, that form an important basis for further research into characteristics of effective citizenship education in SNPE.

  Keywords: characteristics further important citizenship education role expected asks shed light several factors attention specific learning
• PhD revisited: Students’ Perceptions of Democracy, Politics, and Citizenship Preparation and Implications for Social Studies Education (2019) · doi

  While several studies have investigated young people’s attitudes towards and participation in democracy and politics, as well as the influence of citizenship education on young people’s political participation, few studies have explored students’ perceptions of the concepts of democracy and politics and their own perceptions of citizenship education.

  Keywords: young people participation democracy politics citizenship education perceptions several investigated attitudes towards well influence political