Cultivating an 'Earthly Paradise': Nature, Informal Education, and the Contested Politics of Youth Citizenship, 1910s-1940s

Autor/in	Roberts, Siân
Titel	Cultivating an 'Earthly Paradise': Nature, Informal Education, and the Contested Politics of Youth Citizenship, 1910s-1940s
Quelle	In: History of Education, 49 (2020) 4, S.498-516 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2020.1753827
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational History; Citizenship; Youth; Informal Education; Activism; Urban Areas; Physical Environment; Citizenship Education; Politics; Religion; Suburbs; Youth Clubs; Social Change; United Kingdom (Birmingham) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Staatsbürgerschaft; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Urban area; Stadtregion; Natürliche Umwelt; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Politik; Einzugsbereich; Jugendfreizeitstätte; Sozialer Wandel
Abstract	This article discusses contested discourses of youth citizenship in Birmingham, UK, in the early twentieth century. It explores how socially committed Quakers and labour and co-operative activists in the city drew on transnational social and political critiques of the urban, and a powerful discourse of nature as facilitator of a morally and physically healthier citizen, to adopt pedagogic responses aimed at securing a more peaceful and egalitarian world. Taking the British Camp Fire Girls and a local fellowship of the Woodcraft Folk as case studies, the article considers the role of the natural world in the pedagogy of youth citizenship, and how organisational rhetoric at a national level was translated into practice locally. It analyses the political and religious motivations of the adults who developed these initiatives, and argues that suburban south Birmingham provided a very particular pedagogic landscape in which alternative conceptualisations of youth citizenship were possible. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01