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The nature of citizenship education provision: an initial study
Author(s) -
Leighton Ralph
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/0958517042000226829
Subject(s) - citizenship , meaning (existential) , citizenship education , pedagogy , focus (optics) , sociology , compulsory education , political science , mathematics education , psychology , law , optics , politics , psychotherapist , physics
While compulsory citizenship education has apparently been accepted and, in some quarters, regarded as overdue, in schools there has been little opportunity to discuss the meaning of ‘citizenship’. This article reports an initial study of four schools, with a focus on one of them. From this study it was evident that teachers and students have different views about what they are offering and being offered. Some implications of the spaces between these differences are aired in the conclusion of the article.