A dangerous turn
The Confluence of Safety and Citizenship Discourses in Educational Scholarship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2937979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Estélles (0000-0001-6162-3875, University of Waikato, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2024.2443915 |
| OpenAlex | W4406043907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
In recent decades, calls to foster safe learning environments have proliferated in the educational scholarship related to citizenship. Examples range from demands to keep young citizens safe in the digital world through to calls to hold safe conversations around controversial issues. These invocations of safety, however, have raised little opposition and debate. Using a Foucauldian lens, this article examines the ‘truths’ that underlie the discourses of safety and citizenship in the educational scholarship published from 2012 to 2022. In the 103 articles discursively analyzed, assumptions such as safety as an educational right, students as vulnerable objects of protection and teachers as safety providers are identified. The (dangerous) implications of these assumptions are critically discussed
Citizenship · Confluence · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education
Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The dangerousness of youth-at-risk
Discourses on employability
Consolidating a neoliberal agenda in education
The paradoxes of practical research
Runaway World
The individualized society
Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship
Pedagogy of discomfort’ and its ethical implications
Who Needs Global Citizenship Education? A Review of the Literature on Teacher Education
Discourses of Inclusion
Children at the centre of safety
From Child Welfare to Child Protection/Safeguarding
Being safe from what and safe for whom? A critical discussion of the conceptual metaphor of ‘safe space’
Pedagogy of fear
Safe & sound? Perceptions of campus safety for Black college students
Counternarratives of students’ experiences returning to comprehensive schools from an involuntary disciplinary alternative school
Questioning the no-touch discourse in physical education from a children's rights perspective
Opening discourses of citizenship education
Subjective well-being and perceptions of safety among Jewish and Arab children in Israel
Child safety in policy
Risk society
Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and 'therapisation' of social justice
A Call to Action for Teacher Preparation Programs
There's no Place Like Home
The vulnerable child in neoliberal contexts
A dangerous turn
Spinning our wheels
Shaping the 'At-Risk Youth
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |