Citizenship Educational Policy

A Case of Russophone Minority in Estonia

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ID5934208
AutoresNikolai Kunitsõn (0000-0003-0347-8408, Tallinn University, autor de correspondencia), Leif Kalev (0000-0002-5714-0966, Tallinn University)
Año2021
Volumen10
Número4
Páginas131
Fecha de publicación2021-04-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci10040131
OpenAlexW3143471312
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas22

In the contemporary era, societies are divided, and political polarization is increasing. One of the most powerful instruments the government can use is general standard education, specifically citizenship education. We will look at the case of Estonia, because Estonia's main political cleavage is the ethnic cleavage between the Estonian and the Russophone community. Our main research question is as follows: How would it be possible to use democratic citizenship education to decrease in the future the socio-economic inequality between different communities in Estonia? We will outline the context of ethnic socio-economic inequality in Estonia and show how these differences have been at least partially influenced by the current education system in Estonia and how citizenship education can be used to reduce these inequalities in the future. We will conduct an empirical analysis of the curriculum, and this will be followed by semi-structured qualitative interviews. In the discussion, we will make suggestions to the current Estonian citizenship education policy and offer various insights into tackling this issue

Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Estonian · Ethnic group · Geography · Inequality · Latvian · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy