A Dynamic Citizenship Education for the New Public School

Autor/in	White, Patricia
Titel	A Dynamic Citizenship Education for the New Public School
Quelle	In: FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 61 (2019) 2, S.217-224 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-8253
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Public Schools; Empathy; Foreign Countries; Experiential Learning; Conflict; Teaching Methods; Prosocial Behavior; Democracy; Political Attitudes; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Empathie; Ausland; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Konflikt; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Demokratie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Großbritannien
Abstract	Currently in the United Kingdom, citizenship provision is meagre and, where it appears in schools, it is heavily biased towards the theoretical. This article acknowledges that citizenship education needs a theoretical aspect but argues that the new public school should complement this with more dynamic, experiential learning. The proposal focuses on a democratic way of managing political conflict, the complex practice of compromise. It considers three essential features of a good compromise: mutual respect; coping with seemingly second-best choices; and recognising sacrifice. Drawing on these elements, it argues, the new public school can offer a dynamic citizenship education through its organisation, structure and ethos. In a supportive learning environment, school students can learn attitudes of respect, empathy towards others and ways of dealing with conflict by non-violent means, develop social imagination in exploring creative and ingenious solutions to conflict and learn to cope, collegially, with disappointed hopes. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01