Diagrams in Civic Education Visuospatial Models of Society in Textbooks and Teaching

 This book presents the findings of three studies on the use of diagrams in civic education. The first study presents an international comparison of textbook diagrams promoting national unity in diversity, with examples from ten countries. The second focuses on the depiction of migration in diagrammatic form in German textbooks, The final study was conducted in collaboration with teachers in Swedish social science classrooms, and focuses on teaching comprehension of flow charts and scatterplots. The book will be of interest to scholars of educational media, didactics, the history of education and citizenship education.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Connecting the Nation: Diagrams of Unity and Diversity in Civics Textbooks.- Chapter 3: Diagrammatic Othering: The Logics of Visualising Migration in Civic Education Textbooks.- Chapter 4: Teaching Civic Visual Literacy: Four Guiding Principles.- Chapter 5: Diagrams in Civic Education: Understanding Their Spatial Organization, Imagery, and Language.

Janne Holmén is Associate Professor in the History of Education at the Department of Education, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Ann-Sofie Jägerskog is Associate Professor at the Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Daniel Schumann is Research Associate at the Institute for Educational Research, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Malin Tväråna is Associate Professor in the Department of Education,  Uppsala University, Sweden.