ERIC Number: EJ1409966
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1468-1366
EISSN: EISSN-1747-5104
Citizenship Practices in School Spaces: Comparative Discourse Analysis of Children's Group Decision Making
Beth Cross
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, v32 n2 p323-340 2024
Critique of citizenship education has suggested citizenship should be reconceived, not as a status, but as something that people continuously do: citizenship as practice. This article draws on a two-year ethnographic study of citizenship practices in a Scottish primary school examining how citizenship curriculum was distributed across children's experience of the school day, the ways belonging was constructed in different spaces and time frames and how civic participation was identified in pupils' own terms. The article's close discourse analysis examines moments when children's decision-making reveals the connections made between citizenship curriculum and viable citizenship identities in practice. This micro analysis of the semi-formal space of the school reveals children's understanding of group cooperation that remain opaque in the more formal setting of the classroom. The findings suggest that educators would do well to attune further to children's informal decision making processes and curricular practices that would better support them.
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cooperative Learning, Decision Making, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Self Concept, Citizen Participation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Scotland)
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