ERIC Number: EJ920254
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 30
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 70
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0093-3104
Locating Citizenship: Curriculum, Social Class, and the "Good" Citizen
Tupper, Jennifer A.; Cappello, Michael P.; Sevigny, Phillip R.
Theory and Research in Social Education, v38 n3 p336-365 Sum 2010
In a three-year study, the authors explore students' understandings and experiences of citizenship at two high school sites in Regina, Saskatchewan. Specifically, the authors consider the possibility that social location mediates the extent to which the official social studies curriculum is able to produce students as "good" citizens. The analysis of student survey responses and focus group conversations suggests the continuing salience of social class in students' understandings of and relationships to the officially sanctioned discourse of "good" citizenship. (Contains 4 tables and 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, High School Students, Citizenship Education, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Focus Groups, Social Class, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Saskatchewan (Regina); Salience

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