Global citizenship education in the mountain state: A critical discourse analysis of West Virginia’s high school science and social studies curriculum standards

This dissertation investigates global citizenship education in North Central and Central Appalachia by examining the state standards used in high school science and social studies classes of the state of West Virginia. It has three research questions. First, what kind of citizen does the high school social studies and science standards used in West Virginia seek to create? Second, what kinds of political and economic ideologies are represented in the standards used? Finally, do the standards used reflect concepts found in global citizenship education? The study uses Critical Discourse Analysis following the framework of Mullet (2018), the methods of Gee (2011, 2014b), and employs concept coding. The study found that the standards used in West Virginia reflect traditional liberalism and classical republicanism with an emphasis on learning how to effectively contribute to a capitalist society upholding what is considered to be traditional American values as determined by the state.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2024

Author dc:creator

• Cunningham, Cody Jack

Contributors dc:contributor

• Witt , Allison
• Pak, Yoon
• Herrera , Linda
• Lindgren, Samantha

• West Virginia
• North Central Appalachia
• Central Appalachia
• Citizenship Education
• Civics
• Global Citizenship Education
• Critical Gce
• Gce
• Democratic Gce
• Critical Theory Of Democracy
• United States
• Cda

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2024 Cody Cunningham

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127181

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F127181