Citizenship, Democracy and Education in the UK: Towards a Common Framework for Citizenship Lessons in the Four Home Nations

Kisby, Ben; Sloam, James

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“…Therefore, there may be a role for citizenship education in boosting social capital for the purposes of stimulating civic and political engagement. This rationale underpinned the UK Government’s decision to introduce statutory citizenship lessons in schools in 2002 to address what was perceived as an ongoing decline in levels of social capital (Kisby, 2012; Kisby and Sloam, 2012).…”

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Youth political (dis)engagement and the need for citizenship education: Encouraging young people’s civic and political participation through the curriculum

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Griffiths

2017

Education, Citizenship and Social

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Over the past two decades, there has been a wide-ranging debate about the impact of citizenship education on young people's political engagement and participation across Britain. Using data from a survey of 1025 young people aged 18 years at the time of the 2010 General Election, we examined the impact that studying for a formal qualification in General Certificate of Secondary Education in Citizenship Studies has on young people's political and civic engagement. Drawing from the hypothesis that those young people who took the course would be more engaged than those who did not, results demonstrated that there are many differences between the two groups in terms of their political perspectives as well as their past and future patterns of political participation.

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Youth political (dis)engagement and the need for citizenship education: Encouraging young people’s civic and political participation through the curriculum

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Griffiths

2017

Education, Citizenship and Social

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“…Indeed, the current youth generation is often characterised as apathetic or even as antipolitical, with neither aptitude nor inclination for participating in any form of collective social endeavour, and with no sense of civic responsibility (Fahmy 2003;Russell 2004;Power Inquiry 2006;Stoker 2006Stoker , 2011Hay 2007;Farthing 2010). For instance, the driving force underpinning the introduction of citizenship classes in schools in England in 2002 was an acknowledgement of, and apparent concern with, what was considered as a growing democratic deficit and increasing political apathy among young people (Kisby and Sloam 2012;Tonge, Mycock, and Jeffery 2012). Further, in 2008, Prime Minister Gordon Brown set up the be more effectively encouraged to participate in political life (Youth Citizenship Commission 2009).…”

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Social differentiation in young people's political participation: the impact of social and educational factors on youth political engagement in Britain

Henn

Foard

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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Over the course of the last decade, policy makers in Britain have become increasingly concerned about the apparent and persisting withdrawal by young people from the formal political process. In this article, the authors consider the results from a representative online national survey of 1025 British 18-year-olds conducted in 2011, including both those who voted at the 2010 General Election and those who did not. The findings reveal that young people do profess a commitment to the political process, although they consider that there are relatively few opportunities available for them to intervene effectively in formal political life. Our study also indicates that there is no uniform youth orientation to politics, and the data reveal that this generation's engagement with formal politics is complex and nuanced. Social class and educational history both appear to have a crucial bearing on political engagement, while views also differ according to ethnicity andto a lesser extentgender. The authors also consider the findings from 14 online focus groups with 86 young people who opted not to vote at the 2010 General Election. These findings enable us to consider what influenced these young people's patterns of (dis)engagement with politics.

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“…Increasingly, civic education is also considered an important influence on knowledge and political orientations among young people (Galston 2001;Niemi and Junn 1998), even though the precise mechanisms by which classroom instruction and organization influence students are open to debate (Torney-Purta 2002;Campbell 2008;Martens and Gainous 2013;Kisby and Sloam 2012).…”

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The Compensation Effect of Civic Education on Political Engagement: How Civics Classes Make Up for Missing Parental Socialization

2016

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The development of political engagement in early life is significant given its impact on political knowledge and participation. Analyses reveal a large influence of parents on their offspring's curiosity about politics during their teenage years. Increasingly, civic education is also considered an important influence on political interest and orientations of young people as schools are assigned a crucial role in creating and maintaining civic equality. We study the effects of civic education on political engagement, focusing especially on whether and how civic education can compensate for missing parental political socialization. We use data from the Belgian Political Panel Study (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011) and the U.S. Youth-Parent Socialization Panel Study , which both contain information on political attitudes and behaviors of adolescents and young adults, those of their parents, and on the educational curriculum of the young respondents. Our findings suggest that civics training in schools indeed compensates for inequalities in family socialization with respect to political engagement. This conclusion holds for two very different countries (the U.S. and Belgium), at very different points in time (the 1960s and the 2000s), and for a varying length of observation (youth to old age and impressionable years only).

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Citizenship, Democracy and Education in the UK: Towards a Common Framework for Citizenship Lessons in the Four Home Nations

Cited by 50 publications

References 39 publications

Youth political (dis)engagement and the need for citizenship education: Encouraging young people’s civic and political participation through the curriculum

Youth political (dis)engagement and the need for citizenship education: Encouraging young people’s civic and political participation through the curriculum

Social differentiation in young people's political participation: the impact of social and educational factors on youth political engagement in Britain

The Compensation Effect of Civic Education on Political Engagement: How Civics Classes Make Up for Missing Parental Socialization

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