Training teachers for and through citizenship: learning from citizenship experiences
Bhargava, Marcus and Jerome, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-6986
(2020)
Training teachers for and through citizenship: learning from citizenship experiences.
Societies, 10
(2)
, 36.
pp. 1-12.
ISSN 2075-4698
[Article]
(doi:10.3390/soc10020036)
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Abstract
This article illustrates how one university-based initial teacher education (ITE) course sought to develop links with civil society organisations to develop meaningful active citizenship education. The purpose of the project was to enhance citizenship education for ITE students preparing to become secondary school teachers. The article discusses recent developments in theorising teacher education 3.0 to ensure teachers are empowered to engage with a wide range of social and political challenges affecting young people and their communities. It then describes a small project that involved university staff and students in a local community organising project, bringing together a range of local community groups to work together for social justice. The article explores how student teachers working within that community organising group developed an increasingly politicised view of their role—as public sector workers in a politicised policy landscape; as potential agents for the promotion of democracy; and as political actors in their own right. The article concludes that these insights into practice illustrate the potential for a broader conception of teacher education, involving civil society partners beyond schools and universities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This article belongs to the Special Issue Citizenship Education and Civil Society |
Research Areas: | A. > School of Health and Education > Education |
Item ID: | 29784 |
Notes on copyright: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. |
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Depositing User: | Lee Jerome |
Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2020 13:28 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2021 20:08 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/29784 |
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