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This chapter addresses the participation of the Dominican Republic in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2009 and 2016, and the challenges they reveal. Participation in these IEA civic studies contributed to educational discussions in the Dominican Republic through stimulating curricular reform in which the education approach recently changed from content-based to competency-based. As a result, one of the core competencies to be developed in all subjects and at every grade through a cross-curricular approach is related to ethics and citizenship; specific contents regarding citizenship are taught in social sciences. However, ICCS has shown a substantial gap between the intended (formal curriculum documents), the implemented (actual teaching process in the classroom), and the attained curriculum (student achievement), as well as the importance of context. ICCS serves as a reliable source of information for policymaking, research, and debates regarding civic education in the Dominican Republic.
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Scheker, A., Guzmán, M. (2021). Building Civic and Citizenship Education in the Dominican Republic. In: Malak-Minkiewicz, B., Torney-Purta, J. (eds) Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71102-3_6
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