Social Capital and Citizenship Lessons in England: Analysing the Presuppositions of Citizenship Education

Autor/in	Kisby, Ben
Titel	Social Capital and Citizenship Lessons in England: Analysing the Presuppositions of Citizenship Education
Quelle	In: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 4 (2009) 1, S.41-62 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1746-1979
DOI	10.1177/1746197908099376
Schlagwörter	National Curriculum; Citizenship; Citizenship Education; Foreign Countries; Social Capital; Educational Policy; Public Policy; Policy Analysis; Citizen Participation; Politics of Education; Democratic Values; Community; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerschaft; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Ausland; Sozialkapital; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Öffentliche Ordnung; Politikfeldanalyse; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Educational policy
Abstract	This article examines the impact of the concept of social capital on the citizenship education initiative in England through its influence on the normative content of the policy, as embodied in the report of the Advisory Group on Citizenship (AGC)--which was one of the immediate causes of the inclusion of citizenship in the National Curriculum in 2002. It argues that the policy is underpinned by what it describes as a hybrid "republican-communitarian" model of citizenship (the model implicitly advanced by the US political scientist Robert Putnam in his work on social capital), which emphasizes the value of political participation by citizens and the extent to which this participation is reliant on community membership. The article argues that the model of citizenship advanced by the AGC embodies crucial tensions between its republican and communitarian elements and by its being situated within the context of an uncritical acceptance of the boundaries prescribed by neo-liberal economic orthodoxy, which necessarily undermines the community attachments that the citizenship education policy seeks to promote. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10