Citizenship Education in Kyrgyzstan

Building a New Democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID13010069
AuthorsKamilla Bahbahani (Equity Office, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume11
Issue2
Pages145-157
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Social and Economics Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2047-1734 • E-ISSN: 2047-1734
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2304/csee.2012.11.2.145
OpenAlexW2320102426
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

This article reviews a country-wide citizenship education programme in Kyrgyzstan, exploring its reception within the context of an emerging democracy. Qualitative interviews with students, teachers and non-governmental organisation workers in three regions of Kyrgyzstan highlight the value given to particular aspects of the curriculum: new content and perspectives on citizenship; an engaging, content-rich textbook; and interactive instructional methods. These are all found to transform individual outlooks, self-efficacy, classroom dynamics and teacher–student relationships. Because the context is an unstable political, economic and social situation, the curriculum becomes positioned as revolutionary as students are encouraged to build a new system, albeit one that resembles Western democracy. Critical issues arising out of the programme include the meaning and purpose of consensus within a classroom; ways to value different types of participation; and how to indigenise the type of citizenship in the curriculum

Citizenship · Citizenship education · Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Democracy · Geography · Meaning (existential · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Psychology

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