Young people's intended civic and political participation: does education matter?

Lopes, Joana; Benton, Tom; Cleaver, Elizabeth

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“…However, in citizenship attitudes and skills these gender differences are much smaller and appear to be more topic-specific ). Students with a higher social economic status (Lopes et al 2009;Schulz et al 2010;TorneyPurta 2004;Torney-Purta and Barber 2004) and from a majority background Schulz et al 2010;Torney-Purta et al 2006) also show relatively greater citizenship knowledge than other students. And while majority students intend to vote more often than minority students (e.g.…”

Section: Citizenship Competences Goals Of Citizenship Education and mentioning

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Citizenship orientations and knowledge in primary and secondary education

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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 citizenship attitudes, skills, reflection and knowledge for a sample of 7,768 students in grades 5-9 from 38 Dutch primary and secondary schools. The results were cross-validated using a different sample of 15,940 students in primary and secondary education. We were able to distinguish four citizenship orientations among students (societal interest, prosocial ability, reflective thinking and assertiveness) and two domains of citizenship knowledge (societal knowledge and interpersonal knowledge). This framework can help with the large-scale, empirical evaluation of the effects of citizenship education and also guide schools in the formulation of educational goals to support the development of citizenship competences among students.

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Section: Citizenship Competences Goals Of Citizenship Education and mentioning

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“…According to Lopes, Benton & Cleaver (2009), at the school level, student demographics, school programs, and activities are found to affect students' political knowledge and efficacy. Citizenship education is also able to promote civic and political engagement.…”

Section: Political Socialization In Singapore Schools and The Workplacesmentioning

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“…For instance, according to Cross & Young (2008b), young people join a political party because their parents are also a member of the party. In addition, Lopes, Benton, & Cleaver (2009) pointed out that school activities are able to affect students' political efficacy. Besides, according to Dalton (1996), online media use can enhance young voters' political discussion.…”

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The Impacts of Political Socialization on People’s Online and Offline Political Participation—Taking the Youth of Singapore as an Example

Hong¹,

Lin²

2017

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Recent years have seen an increase in political participation among young people worldwide. In light of this heightened political consciousness among youth, the process by which the young might develop political attitudes and become engaged with politics makes a worthy and important research subject. This study thus focuses on whether political socialization by family and peers can affect the online and offline political participation of Singapore youth, also taking into consideration recent changes in the local political environment. The other aspect the study wished to explore whether offline and online news exposure might have a correlation with youth political participation. AC Nielsen Research Pte Ltd. was commissioned to conduct the post-election national telephone survey. Data analysis supported that political socialization by the two sources of family and peers was significantly correlated with young people's political participation in both offline and online forms. In addition, the results indicate that newspaper reading was associated with youth's online political participation but not with their offline political participation. And online news exposure was found to significantly correlate with youth's online political participation. One other result worth mentioning is the positive correlation between mother's education and respondent's offline political participation.

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“…A growing body of empirical research focuses on both these dimensions, both vertical and horizontal, where concerns of the knowledge, skills, values and dispositions necessary for citizenship are considered together with those of the necessary educational processes, structures and support for participation (e.g. Ireland et al 2006, Kelly 2006, Osler and Starkey 2006, Lund 2006, Biesta et al 2009, Lopes et al 2009, Osler 2009, Amnå et al 2010. In a recent summary of research explaining citizens' participation, Yeung, Passmore and Packer (2012) group main factors supporting participation as: citizens' communication networks, social milieu and life satisfaction.…”

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Opening discourses of citizenship education: a theorization with Foucault

Nicoll

Fejes

Olson

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Journal of Education Policy

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We argue two major difficulties in current discourses of citizenship education. The first is a relative masking of student discourses of citizenship, by positioning students as lacking citizenship and as outside the community that acts. The second is in failing to understand the discursive and material support for citizenship activity. We thus argue that it is not a lack of citizenship that education research might address, but identification and exploration of the different forms of citizenship that people already engage in. We offer a fragmentary, poststructuralist theorization oriented to explore the 'contemporary limits of the necessary', drawing on specific resources from the work of Michel Foucault and others for the constitution of local, partial accounts of citizenship discourses and activities, and exploration of their possibilities and constraints. We argue this as a significant tactic of theorization in support of an opening of discourses of citizenship and in avoiding the discursive difficulties that we have identified. Our theorization then is significant in its potential to unsettle discourses that confine contemporary thought regarding citizenship education, and support exploration of what might be excessive to that confinement.

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Young people's intended civic and political participation: does education matter?

Cited by 55 publications

References 23 publications

Citizenship orientations and knowledge in primary and secondary education

Citizenship orientations and knowledge in primary and secondary education

The Impacts of Political Socialization on People’s Online and Offline Political Participation—Taking the Youth of Singapore as an Example

Opening discourses of citizenship education: a theorization with Foucault

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