Educational Policy for Citizenship in the Early Years in Australia

Autor/inn/en	Ailwood, Jo; Brownlee, Jo; Johansson, Eva; Cobb-Moore, Charlotte; Walker, Sue; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian
Titel	Educational Policy for Citizenship in the Early Years in Australia
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 26 (2011) 5, S.641-653 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2011.587538
Schlagwörter	Citizenship; Early Childhood Education; Citizenship Education; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Discourse Analysis; Social Justice; Citizen Participation; Policy Analysis; Alignment (Education); Conflict; Performance Factors; Barriers; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerschaft; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Citizenship; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Diskursanalyse; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Politikfeldanalyse; Konflikt; Leistungsindikator; Australien
Abstract	Understandings of young children as active and capable citizens, while evident in discourses of early childhood education and research, are not widely reflected in the policy for the early years of schooling in Australia. This paper makes an analysis of the gaps and tensions between discourses of young children as active citizens and policy for citizenship education at the national level in Australia and at the Queensland State level. There is a widespread discourse within early childhood that regards young children as citizens and democratic participants in their own lives, as a reflection of the oft-cited Article 12 in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, educational policy and curriculum for citizenship in Australia, by and large, adheres to age and stage understandings of children that deem young children unable to conceptualise and/or articulate ideas of what it means to "be a good citizen". We ask which discourses are being harnessed in educational policy for citizenship in Australia, what discourses are silenced or ignored and what this tells us about how young children are thought about in Australian politics and education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10