Citizenship education and the challenge of racism, discrimination and disadvantage

Autor:	Basil R. Singh
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Entitlement Liberal democracy Criminology Racism Economic Justice Democracy Disadvantaged Law Political Science and International Relations Sociology Citizenship Disadvantage media_common
Zdroj:	Contemporary Politics. 7:299-318
ISSN:	1469-3631 1356-9775
DOI:	10.1080/13569770120106444
Popis:	The idea behind citizenship education is that it will help both to integrate the demands of justice, equality and community and to prevent the increasing apathy towards politics and government, which may damage the health and stability of a modern liberal democracy. The recent British Report on Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools (the Crick Report) can be seen as a response to those concerns. This article discusses these concerns and offers an evaluation of the main recommendations of the Crick Report from the perspective of ethnic minorities and disadvantaged groups. If citizenship education as defined by the Crick Report is intimately linked to ideas of entitlement, justice and tolerance of difference, would such an education help students to acquire the necessary knowledge and understanding, skills and dispositions to tackle racism, discrimination and disadvantage? An incisive education must help to remove social, racial and sex barriers that prevent some citizens from en...
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