Children's Citizenship Education in Politically Sensitive Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3110315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Leonard (0000-0003-1717-3971, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 487-503 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0907568207086411 |
| OpenAlex | W2076853723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 24 |
Citizenship is both an individual and collective identity. In politically sensitive societies, the aim of citizenship education is to transform discourses around `us' and `them' into a more inclusive `we'. Yet promoting an inclusive citizenship is beset with challenges and contradictions as it may integrate young people into mainstream political structures to which some of them will have limited allegiance. In politically sensitive societies, discourses around citizenship may promote discourses of silences around existing communal tensions. The paper demonstrates this by drawing on Northern Ireland as a case study. It explores a number of dilemmas associated with citizenship education, including the crucial need to acknowledge the dynamics of power and control which characterize adult/teacher and child/pupil relationships in the school classrooms where citizenship education is transmitted
Allegiance · Citizenship · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Religious Education and Schools
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Conditional citizens, suspect subjects
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Echoes from the Past
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Growing up in divided societies
Schooling in conflict
Citizenship education in divided societies
The politics and pedagogy of war remembrance
Parallel lines? Childhood discourses emphasized by the children's rights movement and the emerging field of children's rights studies
The suffering we collectively inhabit
Subtractive Schooling
Citizenship and Social Class
Good Citizenship and Educational Provision
Making Spaces
Multicultural Citizenship
Why Don't British Young People Vote at General Elections
Balancing difference and the common good
Citizenship education policies in Northern Ireland and the recognition of ethnic and racial diversity in the wake of new immigration
Making sense of the new geography of citizenship
Citizenship, Education and Contradiction
Recreational rioting
Who fears to speak
Citizenship Universalism, Migration and the Risks of Exclusion
Childhood, Agency and Education Reform
Children and Citizenship in Britain
Children's Citizenship and the Structuring of Adult-child Relations in the Primary School
Teenagers Telling Sectarian Stories
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |