What Do Citizens Need to Know? An Analysis of Knowledge in Citizenship Curricula in the UK and Ireland

Autor/in	Jerome, Lee
Titel	What Do Citizens Need to Know? An Analysis of Knowledge in Citizenship Curricula in the UK and Ireland
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 48 (2018) 4, S.483-499 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
DOI	10.1080/03057925.2017.1295808
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Citizenship Education; Curriculum Evaluation; Comparative Analysis; Social Studies; Relevance (Education); Educational Objectives; Educational Needs; United Kingdom; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Curriculum; Evaluation; Curriculumevaluation; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Evaluierung; Gemeinschaftskunde; Relevance; Relevanz; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Großbritannien; Irland
Abstract	Contemporary citizenship education tends to focus on the development of skills through real experiences, which has led to a relative neglect or simplification of knowledge and understanding. This article outlines a framework for analysing citizenship curricula drawing on Young's notion of 'powerful knowledge' and 'knowledge of the powerful' and on Shulman's account of subject knowledge, which includes substantive concepts and epistemic criteria. These ideas are used to analyse the citizenship curricula in the four nations of the UK and Ireland to assess the extent to which they provide an adequate account of knowledge and understanding of citizenship. The article concludes that it is important to reconsider the relationship between the genuinely educational aspects of citizenship education (where 'powerful knowledge' opens up new and diverse understandings) from the normative aims, which are more akin to a form of socialisation (where 'knowledge of the powerful' closes down certain possibilities). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01