Education in a French secular group of scouts
A Site to Study Tensions Over Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4916923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maxime Vanhoenacker (0000-0002-0587-0078, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1047-1059 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2011.627770 |
| OpenAlex | W1966227221 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
From its foundation in 1911 the EEDF (Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France) movement has been officially fostering a citizenship education project matching a normative model inherited from the French Third Republic. EEDF is thus a site to understand the main features of the French citizenship education arena. First and foremost this volunteer group stands at the core of a childhood policy, a field that has been progressively institutionalized and nationalized during the twentieth century. An ethnography of daily practices implemented within this policy framework brings to the fore the symbolic importance of the nation-state as the horizon in citizenship education. In this volunteer sector, individuals have internalized narratives about the decline of state and publicness. The daily work of this group reproduces some of the evolutions of public action in a shifting landscape: especially the increase in security claims and tensions over group identity. Citizenship as an indigenous resource is not mobilized in any innovative or ‘new’ form. It sticks to a mere orthodox (conservative) understanding: conventional political participation and dedication to a consensual conception of the collectivity and common good. This anthropological case study of citizenship questions the relevance of using citizenship as a concept to address political subjectivity and collective commitments in the French context
Citizenship · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |