Students as Political Actors? Similarities and Differences across Six European Nations

Autor/inn/en	Brooks, Rachel; Gupta, Achala; Jayadeva, Sazana; Abrahams, Jessica; Lažetic, Predrag
Titel	Students as Political Actors? Similarities and Differences across Six European Nations
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 46 (2020) 6, S.1193-1209 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brooks, Rachel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
DOI	10.1002/berj.3628
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Students; Citizen Participation; Political Attitudes; Activism; Comparative Analysis; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Collegestudent; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Europa
Abstract	Drawing on data from students, higher education staff and policymakers from six European countries, this article argues that it remains a relatively common assumption that students should be politically engaged. However, while students articulated a strong interest in a wide range of political issues, those working in higher education and influencing higher education policy tended to believe that students were considerably less politically active than their predecessors. Moreover, while staff and policy influencers typically conceived of political engagement in terms of collective action, articulated through common reference to the absence of a 'student movement' or unified student voice, students' narratives tended not to valorise 'student movements' in the same way and many categorised as 'political' action they had taken alone and/or with a small number of other students. Alongside these broad commonalities across Europe, the article also evidences some key differences between nation-states, institutions and disciplines. In this way, it contributes to the comparative literature on young people's political engagement specifically, as well as wider debates about the ways in which higher education students are understood. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01