Insight into the citizenship of students is typically gained via surveys. However, social desirability always plays a role in self-reporting. The relationship between social desirability and citizenship is multi-interpretable. In this article, two views on the divergence and convergence of citizenship and social desirability are presented leading to different assumptions regarding the relations...

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA. 2 Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. 3 Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. 4 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. 5 Department of Biostati...

Despite widespread attention to citizenship in educational practice, knowledge of the citizenship of students is still fragmented. We therefore present a comprehensive framework to integrate empirical data and theoretical insights into the citizenship of young people today. To develop and validate the framework, we conducted exploratory and confirmative factor analyses on measures of citizenshi...

A growing number of social scientists are asking important questions about the dawning of a new kind of citizenship – biological citizenship – and its implications for how we understand the relationship between the state and civil society actors. The perspective of biological citizenship can be expanded to include the emergence of illness as a new political cleavage, as an identity through whic...

The following paper examines the nature and change in citizenship policies in the former 15 Soviet republics since the collapse of the USSR till 2005. The main focus of the paper is the requirements that former Soviet republics adopted into their citizenship laws as prerequisites for naturalization, and the trend in changes made to these provisions. The paper proposes a theory that combines Neo...

How do adult students enact citizenship, and what discursive and material conditions make certain enactments more or less possible? This paper draws on 37 interviews with adult students at Swedish Folk High Schools and focuses on the everyday material-discursive enactments of interactive media in adult students’ statements about citizenship. Drawing on a post-constructional perspective, the ana...

This article develops a composite indicator to monitor the levels of civic competence of young people in Europe using the IEA ICCS 2009 study. The measurement model combines the traditions in Europe of liberal, civic republican and critical/cosmopolitan models of citizenship. The results indicate that social justice values and citizenship knowledge and skills of students are facilitated within ...