Education in a French secular group of scouts: a site to study tensions over citizenship

Autor:	Maxime Vanhoenacker
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Field (Bourdieu) Geography Planning and Development Gender studies Indigenous State (polity) Collective identity Political Science and International Relations Ethnography The Symbolic Narrative Sociology Citizenship media_common
Zdroj:	Citizenship Studies. 15:1047-1059
ISSN:	1469-3593 1362-1025
Popis:	From its foundation in 1911 the EEDF (Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France) movement has been officially fostering a citizenship education project matching a normative model inherited from the French Third Republic. EEDF is thus a site to understand the main features of the French citizenship education arena. First and foremost this volunteer group stands at the core of a childhood policy, a field that has been progressively institutionalized and nationalized during the twentieth century. An ethnography of daily practices implemented within this policy framework brings to the fore the symbolic importance of the nation-state as the horizon in citizenship education. In this volunteer sector, individuals have internalized narratives about the decline of state and publicness. The daily work of this group reproduces some of the evolutions of public action in a shifting landscape: especially the increase in security claims and tensions over group identity. Citizenship as an indigenous resource is not mobilized i...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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