TY - JOUR
T1 - Educating the European citizen in the global age: engaging with the post-national and identifying a research agenda
AU - Marshall, Harriet
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In recent decades there have been increased calls for UK schools to develop a more European and global orientation in their pedagogy and curriculum, and to equip children and young people with post-national knowledge, skills, and dispositions. This paper examines some key problems in post-national conceptions of citizenship education, in order to develop a research agenda focusing on the contested nature of notions of post-national citizenship (with particular attention to European and global citizenship), and on the way these notions are understood as having competing claims in education. In examining these issues the paper explains the confused governmental agendas and commitments in relation to European and/or global citizenship education, and concludes by considering alternative theories of citizenship, curriculum, and pedagogy that may provide a deeper understanding of the associated issues and tensions. Although the paper relates directly to the UK, some of the debates have a wider significance.
AB - In recent decades there have been increased calls for UK schools to develop a more European and global orientation in their pedagogy and curriculum, and to equip children and young people with post-national knowledge, skills, and dispositions. This paper examines some key problems in post-national conceptions of citizenship education, in order to develop a research agenda focusing on the contested nature of notions of post-national citizenship (with particular attention to European and global citizenship), and on the way these notions are understood as having competing claims in education. In examining these issues the paper explains the confused governmental agendas and commitments in relation to European and/or global citizenship education, and concludes by considering alternative theories of citizenship, curriculum, and pedagogy that may provide a deeper understanding of the associated issues and tensions. Although the paper relates directly to the UK, some of the debates have a wider significance.
KW - global citizenship
KW - citizenship education
KW - European citizenship
KW - cosmopolitanism
KW - curriculum
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67650614024&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220270802642002
U2 - 10.1080/00220270802642002
DO - 10.1080/00220270802642002
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-0272
VL - 41
SP - 247
EP - 267
JO - Journal of Curriculum Studies
JF - Journal of Curriculum Studies
IS - 2
ER -