Social justice storytelling and young children's active citizenship
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Article Title | Social justice storytelling and young children's active citizenship |
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ERA Journal ID | 34674 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Phillips, Louise G. |
Journal Title | Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education |
Journal Citation | 31 (3), pp. 363-376 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2010 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | Abingdon, Oxon. United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0159-6306 |
1469-3739 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/01596301003786993 |
Abstract | This paper examines empirical data with regard to recent theorizing and conceptualizing of children’s citizenship. It draws on a doctoral study where the author told social justice stories to one class of children aged five to six years to investigate the active citizenship that the stories set in motion. By imagining this action research study rhizomatically, organic and tangent pathways were mapped of what the stories set in motion. Analysis was informed by poststructuralist discourse theory and critical theory on political action, which enabled identification of enablers and constrainers of young children’s actual practice of citizenship. A case is argued for acknowledgement of young children’s political identities and capacity to act as communitarian citizens. |
Keywords | children's citizenship; constructs of children; political; social actions; storytelling; transformative education |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390107. Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management) |
390302. Early childhood education | |
440802. Citizenship | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0263/social-justice-storytelling-and-young-children-s-active-citizenship
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