Understanding young people's citizenship learning in everyday life

The role of contexts, relationships and dispositions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23345462
AutoresGert Biesta (0000-0001-8530-7105, University of Stirling, autor correspondente), Robert Lawy (University of Exeter), Narcie Kelly (University of Exeter)
Ano2009
Volume4
Fascículo1
Páginas5-24
Data de publicação2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducation Citizenship and Social Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1746-1979 • E-ISSN: 1746-1987
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1746197908099374
OpenAlexW1965897486
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas88
Referências citadas22

In this article we present insights from research which has sought to deepen understanding of the ways in which young people (aged 13—21) learn democratic citizenship through their participation in a range of different formal and informal practices and communities. Based on the research, we suggest that such understanding should focus on the interplay between contexts for action, relationships within and across contexts, and the dispositions that young people bring to such contexts and relationships. In the first part of the article we show how and why we have broadened the narrow parameters of the existing citizenship discourse with its focus on political socialization to encompass a more wide-ranging conception of citizenship learning that is not just focused on school or the curriculum. In the second part of the article we describe our research and present two exemplar case studies of young people who formed part of the project. In the third part we present our insights about the nature and character of citizenship learning that we have been able to draw from our research. In the concluding section we highlight those dimensions of citizenship learning that would have remained invisible had we focused exclusively on schools and the curriculum. In this way we demonstrate the potential of the approach to understanding citizenship learning that we have adopted.

Action (physics) · Citizenship · Curriculum · Democracy · Epistemology · Everyday life · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies