What is it about?
The philosophy of information is used to better understand how civics and its education are changing in the digital world, and how educators and policy-makers can create evidence-based solutions to difficult digital age civics challenges.
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Why is it important?
Digital civics impacts every part of our lives, and is foundational to a healthy civic society. We need a consistent and reliable framework that can help guide education initiatives so they are useful and relevant to the digital age.
Perspectives
As a school teacher there seemed to be a lot of confusion surrounding how to teach aspects of digital age civics and citizenship. I made this framework to clarify the kinds of skills that would be useful, taking philosophical approaches developed for the digital age, and applying them for practise in education.
Estelle Clements
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This page is a summary of: A conceptual framework for digital civics pedagogy informed by the philosophy of information, Journal of Documentation, December 2019, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jd-07-2019-0139.
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