Citizenship Education for the New Society in Europe (original) (raw)

Citizenship and immigrant education

Adult Learning and Education, 2011

In the field of adult education, it is possible to identify two separateareas ofresearch, theory, andpracticethatareoften related: citizenship education and immigrant education. Generallyspeaking, citizenshipeducationaimsatpreparing individuals to become citizens ...

Citizenship and Civic Education

vbn.aau.dk

The theme of this paper is the political identity and participation among migrant youth in Denmark. It is well documented that second-generation immigrants posses poorer skills than their school fellows with an ethnic Danish background. These pupils in general start out with a lower average, and when they leave the school they are also behind. Especially, the Danish language skills often place them in a worse situation in the lessons as well as in the public life. From a political resource perspective it could easily be argued that such conditions lead to a situation with less possibilities for a democratic citizenship. But how do these second-generation immigrants orient themselves politically and democratically? How is their political identity and their sense of citizenship?

The Contemporary Debate on Citizenship

Revus, 2009

"Citizenship is the right to have rights" was famously claimed by Hannah Arendt. he case of the Slovenian erased sheds new light on this assumption that was supposedly put to rest ater World War II. We lack a comprehensive paradigm for grasping what citizenship means today in, and for, our societies. My thesis is that there are currently three ways to understand the notion. hese diferent views tend to merge and overlap in today's debate, furthering misunderstandings. I will account for the diferent conceptions of citizenship by looking at the opposite of citizenry. he political model holds the subject (sujet) in opposition to the citizen (citoyen), entailing problems related to the democratic quality of institutions. Law and jurisprudence look at citizenship by trying to limit the numerous hard cases arising in a world of migration where the opposite of the citizen is the alien and the stateless. While in social science citizenship is the opposite of exclusion and represents social membership, my aim is therefore to distinguish and clear out these three diferent semantic areas. his essay is presented in four sections: First, I briely recall the case of the erased. he second section focuses on discourse analysis so as to enucleate the three diferent meanings of citizenship that we ind in the current debate according to the prevailing disciplinary ields: political, legal and social sciences. hirdly, attention will be directed to the composition of the diferent semantic areas that are connected to the term citizenship. I suggest that we are now dealing with a threefold notion. Finally, I will point to an array of questions that citizenship raises in today's complex society and try to show how this tri-partition of the meaning of "citizenship" can be a useful device for decision makers so as to design as consistent policies as possible.

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies

Oxford University Press eBooks, 2003

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