New Labour and Citizenship Education 1

Bibliographic Data

ID6314100
AuthorsBen Kisby (0000-0001-9725-9737, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume60
Issue1
Pages84-101
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueParliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pa/gsl050
OpenAlexW2015301283
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This article argues that citizenship lessons were introduced in schools in England in 2002 principally because of concerns amongst a range of key figures in and beyond New Labour about perceived declining levels of social capital in Britain. The article is structured as follows: first, it places citizenship education in its historical context prior to the election of Labour in 1997, also emphasising the historical dimension to debates inside the Labour Party about political participation and \ndemocracy. It then outlines the importance of social capital for the party and explains how the concept was a crucial motivational factor for a variety of actors, \nconstituting an ideational policy network, involved in the development of the citizenship education policy. It concludes that the effectiveness of the initiative \nis weakened by New Labour’s reluctance to challenge the entrenched inequalities that undermine the promotion of social inclusion and thus prevent the development of social capital

Capital (architecture · Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Dimension (graph theory · Inclusion (mineral · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Religious Education and Schools

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