Citizenship discourses: production and curriculum

Agamben’s Theory of Biopower and Immigrants/Refugees/Asylum Seekers Discourses of Citizenship and the Implications For Curriculum Theorizing

Globalising the School Curriculum: Gender, EFA and Global Citizenship Education

Whilst the link between access, quality of schooling and gender equality in promotion Education for All is vital, the problematic nature of this agenda for the curriculum in developing countries is not sufficiently recognized. Previous sociological research indicates the contradictions between the social reproductive elements and the egalitarian potential of a ‘globalised curriculum’ especially...

Critical analysis of the Citizenship education discourses after the Islamic Revolution

The present research, in the framework of critical discourse analysis, examines the citizenship education in discourses after the Islamic Revolution. For this purpose, the texts and documents related to the category of citizenship education in the five periods mentioned by Norman Fairclough, It has been analyzed at three levels: "description of the text", "analyzing the processes of production ...

Vocation and Service Learning : Fostering Reflection and Citizenship in an Informatics Curriculum

This paper proposes a new definition of vocation that honors the concept’s ancient roots, is consistent with how the term is used in modern contexts, and also expands the concept for greater versatility. We discuss the centrality of service in the concept of vocation locating it as part of the bridge between a student’s core values and their embodiment in community life. The commitment to one’s...

What Kind of Citizen? What Kind of Democracy? Citizenship Education and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence

The Scottish Curriculum for Excellence lists ‘responsible citizenship’ as one of the four capacities which it envisages that all children and young people should develop. By understanding citizenship as a capacity and by seeing it as a concern that should permeate the whole curriculum, the Scottish approach to education for citizenship is distinctly different from approaches developed in many o...