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Publication Date: 2018-Aug
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Learning for Democracy: The Politics and Practice of Citizenship Education
Weinberg, James; Flinders, Matthew
British Educational Research Journal, v44 n4 p573-592 Aug 2018
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.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Values, Democratic Values, Teaching Methods, Political Issues, Social Values
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Language: English
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