Understanding young people's citizenship learning in everyday life: The role of contexts, relationships and dispositions

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-24

  Biesta, Gert ^a   Lawy, Robert ^b   Kelly, Narcie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Democracy; Learning; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349148716     PISSN: 17461979     EISSN: 17461987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1746197908099374     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Apple, M.W. and Beane, J.A. (1995) Democratic Schools. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
2. Bernstein, B. (2000) Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity, Revised edn. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
3. Biesta, G.J.J. (2005) The learning democracy? Adult learning and the condition of democratic citizenship. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26(5), 693-709.
4. Biesta, G.J.J. (2006) Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
5. Biesta, G.J.J. (2007) Education and the democratic person: Towards a political understanding of democratic education. Teachers College Record, 109(3), 740-69.
6. Biesta, G.J.J. and Lawy, R. (2006) From teaching citizenship to learning democracy: Overcoming individualism in research, policy and practice. Cambridge Journal of Education, 36(1), 63-79.
7. Biesta, G.J.J., Stams, G.J.J.M., Dirks, E., Rutten, E.A., Veugelers, W. and Schuengel, C. (2001) Does sport make a difference? An exploration of the impact of sport on the social integration of young people. In J. Steenbergen, P. de Knop and A. H.F. Elling (eds) Values and Norms in Sport, pp. 95-113. Oxford: Meyer & Meyer Sport.
8. Carr, W. and Hartnett, A. (1996) Education and the Struggle for Democracy: The Politics of Educational Ideas. Buckingham: Open University Press.
9. Dewey, J. (1938) Experience and Education. New York: Macmillan.
10. Dewey, J. (1954 [1927]) The Public and its Problems. Chicago, IL: The Swallow Press.
11. Dewey, J. (1966 [1916]) Democracy and Education. New York: Macmillan.
12. Dewey, J. (1987 [1937]) Democracy and educational administration. In J. A. Boydston (ed.) John Dewey. The Later Works, 1925-53, Vol. 11: 1935-37, pp. 217-52. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
13. Englund, T. (1994) Communities, markets and traditional values: Swedish schooling in the 1990s. Curriculum Studies, 2(1), 5-29.
14. Eurydice (2005) Citizenship Education at School in Europe: Survey. Brussels: European Commission.
15. Faulks, K. (2006) Rethinking citizenship education in England: Some lessons from contemporary social and political theory. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 1(2), 123-40.
16. Festenstein, M. (1997) Pragmatism and Political Theory. From Dewey to Rorty. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
17. France, A. (1998) Why should we care? Young people, citizenship and questions of social responsibility. Journal of Youth Studies, 1(1), 97-111.
18. Gilborn, D. (2006) Citizenship education as placebo: "standards", institutional racism and education. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 1(1), 83-104.
19. Giroux, H.A. (1989) Schooling for Democracy. Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age. London: Routledge.
20. Hall, T., Williamson, H. and Coffey, A. (2000) Young people, citizenship and the third way: A role for the youth service ? Journal of Youth Studies, 3(4), 461-72.
21. Kerr, D. (2005) Citizenship education in England - listening to young people: New insights from the citizenship education longitudinal study. International Journal of Citizenship and Teacher Education, 1(1): 74-96.
22. Lawy, R. and Biesta, G.J.J. (2006) Citizenship-as-practice: The educational implications of an inclusive and relational understanding of citizenship. British Journal of Educational Studies, 54(1), 34-50.
23. Lawy, R. and Biesta, G.J.J. (2007) Citizenship learning and democracy in the lives of young people. Paper presented at the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC), Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax Nova Scotia, 7-9 June.
24. Lawy, R., Bloomer, M. and Biesta, G.J.J. (2004) 'School's just a catalyst' learning, identity and knowledge and the post-16 curriculum. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 56(2), 205-26.
25. Marshall, T.H. (1950) Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. McLaughlin, T.H. (2000) Citizenship education in England: The Crick Report and beyond. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 34(4), 541-70.
27. Ministerie Van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen (2005) Wetsvoorstel 29959 'Bevordering Actief Burgerschap en Sociale Integratie'. [Law proposal 29959 Promotion of Active Citizenship and Social Integration.] Den Haag: Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen.
28. Naval, C., Print, M. and Veldhuis, R. (2002) Education for democratic citizenship in the New Europe: Context and reform. European Journal of Education, 37(2), 107-28.
29. Osler, A. and Starkey, H. (2003) Learning for cosmopolitan citizenship: theoretical debates and young people's experiences. Educational Review, 55(3), 243-54.
30. Pattie, C., Seyd, P. and Whiteley, P. (2004) Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
31. QCA (2000a) Citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4. Initial Guidance for Schools. London: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
32. QCA (2000b) Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship at Key Stages 1 and 2. Initial Guidance for Schools. London: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
33. QCA (2000c) Personal, Social and Health Education at Key Stages 3 and 4. Initial Guidance for Schools. London: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
34. Ratisch, D. and J. Viteritti, eds (2001) Making Good Citizens. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
35. Säfström, C.-A. and Biesta, G.J.J. (2001) Learning democracy in a world of difference. The School Field, 12(5/6), 5-20.
36. Smith, N., Lister, R., Middleton, S. and Cox, L. (2005) Young people as real citizens: Towards an inclusionary understanding of citizenship. Journal of Youth Studies, 8(4), 425-43.
37. Torney-Purta, J., Lehman, R., Oswald, H. and Shulz, W. (2001) Citizenship and Education in Twenty-Eight Countries: Civic Knowledge and Engagement at Age Fourteen. Amsterdam: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).
38. Torres, C.A. (1998) Democracy, Education and Multiculturalism. Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
39. Vanderstraeten, R. and Biesta, G.J.J. (2001) How is education possible? Educational Philosophy and Theory, 33(1), 7-21.
40. Vanderstraeten, R. and Biesta, G.J.J. (2006) How is education possible? A pragmatist account of communication and the social organisation of education. British Journal of Educational Studies, 54(2), 160-74.
41. Westheimer, J. and Kahne, J. (2004) What kind of citizen? The politics of educating for democracy. American Educational Research Journal, 41(2), 237-69.
42. White, C., Bruce, S. and Ritchie, J. (2000) Young People's Politics: Political Interest and Engagement Amongst 14 to 24 Year Olds. York: YPS.