Citizenship

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Citizenship

• Dr Mark Pike m.pike_at_education.leeds.ac.uk

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• Routledge ISBN 0 415
• 23243 0

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• Routledge ISBN 0 415
• 23243 0

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Hard Times by Dickens

• As educators we live in hard times
• So, Mr Choakumchild began in his best manner. He
  and some one hundred and forty schoolmasters, had
  been lately turned at the same time, in the same
  factory, on the same principles, like so many
  pianoforte legs..

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QTS

• He had worked his stony way into Her majestys
  most Honourable Privy Councils Schedule B

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Trainees

• He knew all about the water sheds of all the
  world (whatever they are), and all the histories
  of all the peoples, and all the names of all the
  rivers and mountains, and all the productions,
  manners and customs of all the countries

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or Professional Educators

• If he had only learnt a little less, how
  infinitely better he might have taught much more!

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Professional educators

• PGCE Student-teachers at Leeds educators not
  technicians, not simply implementing the latest
  strategy, curriculum or directive BUT debating
  ends and means of education
• Those who challenge, debate, problematize and
  critically analyse the nature, purpose and means
  of education

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For Citizenship Education

• I have not the slightest intention of simply
  telling you what the Citizenship curriculum
  entails and how to effectively implement it
• I am not addressing technicians
• I am addressing professional educators
• I want to prompt you to think about the
  governments aims and purposes
• I want you to consider the values underpinning
  the Citizenship curriculum
• And so, colleagues.

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A Survival Simulation

• for 21st Century Citizens
• Group A Haves
• Group B Have-nots

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1. Citizenship The Context

• Citizenship, apart from in the sense of holding a
  passport, is not a widely understood concept in
  England
• England has no written constitution or bill of
  rights and is still a constitutional monarchy.
• Shared Values?

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1. Citizenship The Context

• Terrorism
• 9/11
• London bombings
• Failure of multiculturalism
• At time Bulger, Lawrence etc

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2. Aims and Implementation

• Nothing less than a change in the political
  culture of the country where people think of
  themselves as active citizens and become
  confident in finding new forms of involvement
  and acting among themselves (QCA, 1999)

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Informed citizens

• rights and responsibilities, religious and
  ethnic diversity, democracy, the media and
  importance of a free press, voluntary groups and
  NGOs, global citizenship and interdependence,
  sustainable development, the legal and justice
  system, ways of bringing about change, how to
  resolve conflict,

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Active citizens

• active citizens as they develop skills of
  enquiry and communication and also of
  participation and responsible action (QCA,
  1999, pp. 6, 14-15, 31).
• From September 2002, Citizenship has a minimum of
  5 of curriculum time allocated to it
• A new subject GCSE entry

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3. Liberal Values

• liberal values
• autonomous rationality
• civic republicanism
• pluralism
• human rights
• democratization

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4. Problematizing liberalism

• The State seeks to perpetuate itself by fostering
  citizens who are in accord with its fundamental
  principle (Bloom,1987)
• Is there danger of liberalism contradicting
  itself by imposing a liberal regime through
  distinctly illiberal methods (Wright, 2003)

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5. Implementation?

• - introduce as GCSE
• - timetable Citizenship
• - provide whole-day events
• - marry to PSHE
• - integrate across the curriculum
• - audit and record
• - attend to ethos

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6. Inclusive X-Curricular Citizenship

• If your view of citizenship is you want some
  chart, like English, Maths and Science, that you
  want to tick off that kids have hit a certain
  level, well youre missing the point
• how far teachers of other subjects saw
  citizenship as automatically part of what they
  do
• (Davies, Harber Yamashita, 05)

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7. Your Country Needs You

• and your subject (Standards Site DfES)
• citsubject_sci.pdf (40.1 Kb)
• citsubject_eng.pdf (68.1 Kb)
• citsubject_geog.pdf (63.5 Kb)
• citsubject_hist.pdf (65.1 Kb)
• citsubject_maths.pdf (75.5 Kb)
• citsubject_mfl.pdf (50.7 Kb)
• citsubject_pshe.pdf (63.8 Kb)
• citsubject_re.pdf (66.2 Kb)
• citsubject_ict.pdf (39.7 Kb)

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