Module: Storybooks for Citizenship Education

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Storybooks for Citizenship Education
Module Code	SG307 (ITS) / EDP1042 (Banner)
Faculty	DCU Institute of Education	School	STEM Ed, Innov, Global Studies
Module Co-ordinator	Rowan Oberman
Module Teachers	Maria Barry
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only
Essay

Description

Picturebooks can be used to support children’s engagement with and learning in different curriculum areas. In particular they can support children’s creativity, empathy, critical thinking, critical literacy, and engagement with and discussion of local and global citizenship issues. This module supports students in exploring the use of picturebooks in global citizenship education. Students explore picturebook theory including the multimodal dynamic of picturebooks, different genre’s of picturebooks and different areas of picturebook research including with regard to inclusive and intercultural education. The module explores a range of different approaches to teaching using picturebooks including philosophy for children and inquiry-based science. Students examine a wide variety of picturebooks with global citizenship education related content and plan for cross-curricular teaching using picturebooks. The module supports students in selecting picturebooks with particular regard to representation and authenticity in picturebooks. The module also encourages students’ own creativity including opportunities for creative writing and picturebook art and design.

Learning Outcomes

1. Reflect on and discuss their own values and opinions regarding global citizenship issues and conceptualisations of children through the use of picturebooks.
2. Discuss the multimodal dynamics of picturebooks with regard to the relationship between text, images and design features.
3. Plan for the use of picturebooks across class levels to support children’s critical literacy, critical thinking and discussion skills.
4. Plan for the use of picturebooks across class levels to support children’s learning in different curriculum areas and their exploration of global citizenship issues.
5. Critique, assess and select picturebooks with consideration of the perspectives and teaching opportunities they present and issues of representation, authenticity and stereotyping.
6. Respond creatively to global citizenship issues through creative writing, art and design.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Seminars	24	Interactive seminars
Independent Study	51	Reading and research
Assignment Completion	50	Completing assessment for the course
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Picturebook Theory
Students will: explore the multimodal dynamic of picturebooks; explore areas of picturebook research; be introducted to a wide variety of picturebooks including: classic narrative picturebooks, postmodern picturebooks, wordless picturebooks, biography, fairy tales and nonfiction informational picturebooks.

Picturebooks with Global Citizenship Themes
Using picturebooks students will explore the themes of migration, climate change, anti-racism and children rights and consider how these picturebooks can support exploration of these themes in primary schools.

Picturebook Pedagogies
Students will explore the use of picturebooks in inquiry-based learning including philosophy for children. The approaches will support learning across a range of curriculum areas and with different ages.

Creating Picturebooks
Students will respond creatively to global citizenship themes including through creative writing, creating little picturebooks, storyboarding and experimenting with different picturebook art and design techniques.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Assignment	Create aspects of a picturebook with a global citizenship theme or create lesson plans using a picturebook with a global citizenship related theme.	60%	Once per semester
Assignment	Rationale for picturebook or lesson plans	40%	Once per semester

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Anne M. Dolan: 2014, You, Me, and Diversity, Trentham Books Limited, 1858565227
Mary Roche: 0, Developing Children's Critical Thinking Through Picturebooks, 0415727723
Julia Hope: 2017, Children's Literature about Refugees, Trentham Books, 1858566967
Joanna Haynes,Karin Murris: 0, Picturebooks, Pedagogy and Philosophy, 9780415817929
Evelyn Arizpe,Teresa Colomer,Carmen Martínez-Roldán: 2014, Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives, Bloomsbury Publishing, 178093758X

Other Resources

None