Weinberg, J. and Flinders, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-3585-9010 (2018) Learning for democracy: The politics and practice of citizenship education. British Educational Research Journal, 44 (4). pp. 573-592. ISSN 0141-1926
Abstract
It is now two decades since the Advisory Group on Citizenship, commissioned by the newly elected Labour government, recommended the introduction of statutory citizenship education. On the twentieth anniversary of the eponymously named ‘Crick Report’, this article presents the findings of a rigorous mixed-methods study of citizenship educators in the UK. This research suggests that teachers continue to lack a shared understanding of citizenship, conceptually and pedagogically, and also reveals an emphasis amongst teachers upon individualistic notions of good citizenship that are reflective of national, and increasingly global, political discourse. The findings are analysed using a new conceptual framework—the declarative–procedural paradigm—which is developed here to understand the relationship between political and normatively driven visions of democratic citizenship and classroom pedagogy. In doing so the article adds, theoretically and substantively, to the specific research pool of citizenship studies and broader debates about political disengagement.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Authors. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/N006216/1 ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/R011850/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2018 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2018 11:30 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3446 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/berj.3446 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:134940 |
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