PFI and the Performative Politics of Dissent
Lessons for Democratic Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928890 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Mcdonnell (0000-0001-7482-748X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 307-317 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2014.6.3.307 |
| OpenAlex | W2015232643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article reports on an instance of direct political action undertaken in the form of a boycott of a school canteen. The action was staged by students at the school, following redevelopment through a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project. The young people's experiences of the boycott and its impact on their learning were analysed in the context of a larger, interpretative study exploring the relationships between democratic education and the arts. The research offers some important insights into the nature of young people's political engagement and suggests some important implications for democratic education. Specifically it indicates that – at least in the case of the participants in this study – young people are not politically disengaged but are rather differently engaged, and that such engagement can act as an important resource within a critical approach to democratic education
Boycott · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Dissent · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Public Administration
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Making Sense of Social Movements
Education plc
Young Citizens in the Digital Age
From teaching citizenship to learning democracy
The organizational structure of new social movements in a political context
Citizenship in Britain
Reimagining the Role of Art in the Relationship between Democracy and Education
The Politics of Public–Private Partnerships
There is no alternative?’
Political Literacy Cuts Both Ways
Citizenship-as-Practice
Depoliticising Citizenship
Citizenship Education and Youth Participation in Democracy
Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man
Transformative Terrains
Waving the banana' at capitalism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |