Citizenship Education as Placebo: "Standards", Institutional Racism and Education Policy

Autor/in	Gillborn, David
Titel	Citizenship Education as Placebo: "Standards", Institutional Racism and Education Policy
Quelle	In: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 1 (2006) 1, S.83-104 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1746-1979
DOI	10.1177/1746197906060715
Schlagwörter	National Curriculum; Citizenship; Citizenship Education; High Stakes Tests; Foreign Countries; Public Policy; Standards; Educational Policy; Racial Bias; Academic Achievement; Blacks; Acculturation; Refugees; Immigrants; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerschaft; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Ausland; Öffentliche Ordnung; Standard; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Schulleistung; Black person; Schwarzer; Akkulturation; Flüchtling; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten
Abstract	Citizenship education is now a required component of the national curriculum that must be taught by all state-funded schools in England. It is constantly highlighted by policy makers as a major innovation that promotes social cohesion in general, and race equality in particular. At the same time, however, the government has continued to pursue a so-called "standards" agenda that emphasizes a hierarchy of schools based on their students' performance in high stakes tests and promotes increased selection that is known to disadvantage Black students. Consequently, the principal education policy strategies are themselves revealed as potentially racist by the government's own definition. It is in this context that the promotion of citizenship education can be seen as a public policy placebo, that is a pretend treatment for institutional racism that gives the impression of action but is, in fact, without substance or effect. (Contains 2 figures and 20 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10