The Child, the Pupil, the Citizen: Outlines and Perspectives of a Critical Theory of Citizenship Education

Federico Farini

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72673-1_9

The Child, the Pupil, the Citizen: Outlines and Perspectives of a Critical Theory of Citizenship Education

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In 2014 the English National Curricula for primary and secondary schools was heavily criticised for failing to value pupils’ understanding of concepts such as rights, responsibilities and the changing nature of democracy. In 2015 the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework confirmed a teacher-centred approach, launching the idea of education in British values. In the EYFS, values such as cooperation, freedom, responsibility are presented as social skills to be learnt. Through a critical review of the curricula, this contribution challenges the pedagogical model where citizenship is to be transmitted from the adult to the child unidirectionally, in a form where citizens are manufactured. The case for an educational recognition of citizenship as a practice embedded in the day-to-day reality of children as citizens in the present is advanced

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Theorising Childhood
Subtitle of host publication	Citizenship, Rights, and Participation
Editors	Claudio Baraldi, Tom Cockburn
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Chapter	9
Pages	187-213
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-72673-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-72672-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72673-1_9
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 24 Mar 2018

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Name	Studies in Childhood and Youth
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan

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Prof Federico Farini
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Self-referentiality of modern science. Faith in research, distrust in Science
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25 Jun 2024
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Children’s participation in early childhood: realistic, rhetorical, problematic?
Farini, F. (Speaker), Scollan, A. (Speaker) & Tang, F. L. (Speaker)
20 Aug 2019
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A three-dimensional semantic of childhood and children's rights
Farini, F. (Speaker) & Scollan, A. (Speaker)
23 Jun 2017
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A tridimensional semantic of childhood and children’s rights
Farini, F. (Speaker) & Scollan, A. (Speaker)
24 Jun 2016
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Farini, F. (2018). The Child, the Pupil, the Citizen: Outlines and Perspectives of a Critical Theory of Citizenship Education. In C. Baraldi, & T. Cockburn (Eds.), Theorising Childhood: Citizenship, Rights, and Participation (pp. 187-213). (Studies in Childhood and Youth). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72673-1_9

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The Child, the Pupil, the Citizen: Outlines and Perspectives of a Critical Theory of Citizenship Education. / Farini, Federico.
Theorising Childhood: Citizenship, Rights, and Participation. ed. / Claudio Baraldi; Tom Cockburn. London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2018. p. 187-213 (Studies in Childhood and Youth).

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