Children's Citizenship Education in Politically Sensitive Societies

Autor/in	Leonard, Madeleine
Titel	Children's Citizenship Education in Politically Sensitive Societies
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 14 (2007) 4, S.487-503 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568207086411
Schlagwörter	Political Issues; Citizenship Education; Foreign Countries; Children; Social Values; Values Education; Case Studies; Power Structure; Teacher Student Relationship; Peer Relationship; Classroom Environment; Cultural Influences; United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politischer Faktor; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sozialer Wert; Werterziehung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss
Abstract	Citizenship is both an individual and collective identity. In politically sensitive societies, the aim of citizenship education is to transform discourses around "us" and "them" into a more inclusive "we". Yet promoting an inclusive citizenship is beset with challenges and contradictions as it may integrate young people into mainstream political structures to which some of them will have limited allegiance. In politically sensitive societies, discourses around citizenship may promote discourses of silences around existing communal tensions. The paper demonstrates this by drawing on Northern Ireland as a case study. It explores a number of dilemmas associated with citizenship education, including the crucial need to acknowledge the dynamics of power and control which characterize adult/teacher and child/pupil relationships in the school classrooms where citizenship education is transmitted. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10