Analysis of Curriculum about Political Literacy as a Dimension of Citizenship Education

Concept of citizenship is a key to comprehend about democracy and its working. The citizenship curriculum is straightforward based upon the social and political debates of the community. Therefore, this research article aims to analyze the political literacy as a dimension of citizenship education in the secondary school curriculum of Pakistan. For this purpose, the researchers identified ten elements of political literacy in the context of citizenship education with the help of literature review. To find the presence of these ten elements of political literacy in curriculum, the researchers selected four sources viz. curriculum documents 2006, education policy 2009, textbooks of four subjects i.e. English, Urdu, Islamiyat, Pakistan Studies and also the views of teachers teaching these subjects through questionnaire. It was concluded from the data that very poor situation exists about the inclusion of political literacy as a dimension of citizenship education in the curriculum of secondary school level.