ERIC Number: EJ891608
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jul
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Social Justice Storytelling and Young Children's Active Citizenship
Phillips, Louise G.
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v31 n3 p363-376 Jul 2010
This paper examines empirical data with regard to recent theorizing and conceptualizing of children's citizenship. It draws on a doctoral study where the author told social justice stories to one class of children aged five to six years to investigate the active citizenship that the stories set in motion. By imagining this action research study rhizomatically, organic and tangent pathways were mapped of what the stories set in motion. Analysis was informed by poststructuralist discourse theory and critical theory on political action, which enabled identification of enablers and constrainers of young children's actual practice of citizenship. A case is argued for acknowledgement of young children's political identities and capacity to act as communitarian citizens. (Contains 5 notes.)
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Citizenship, Action Research, Citizenship Education, Young Children, Graduate Students, Story Telling, Theory Practice Relationship, Self Concept, Political Attitudes, Vignettes, Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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