Citizenship It can be useful to consider as a 3 part typology which shows three ‘citizenship’ different ways that citizenship can be understood and the sort of citizenship education required for each. responsible citizen’: for whom citizenship education increases their ‘personally awareness of their individual rights and responsibilities; the citizen as a and ‘voter’ ‘volunteer’ citizen’: for whom citizenship education enhances knowledge ‘participatory of participatory structures and rights; the citizen as an individual within a group(s), actively participates in existing structures, takes up opportunities for participation, including participation in the planning and delivery of services citizen’: for whom citizenship education adds a high level of ‘justice-orientated awareness of collective rights and a high level of collective political and social responsibility, including responsibilities to engage with issues of social justice and equality; the citizen as a critical friend to those in power, participates within group(s), actively challenges unequal relations of power, promotes social solidarity and social justice, both locally and beyond, taking account of the global context Individual citizenship Active citizenship Critical citizenship personally participatory citizen justice orientated responsible citizen citizen Core assumptions To solve social To solve social To solve social problems and improve problems and improve problems and society, citizens must society, citizens must improve society, have good character, actively participate citizens must be honest, and take leadership question, debate and responsible and law positions with change established abiding members of established systems systems and the community community structures structures that reproduce patterns of injustice over time Aims Acts responsibly in Is active member of Critically assesses own community community, social, political and organisations and/or economic structures political parties which leads to social injustice Attitude Is a citizen to the Gives critical support Has a critical government to the government distance from the government Knowledge Knows about the Knows how Knows how political system government agencies government agencies Votes work work Know how to organise Know about social collective tasks democratic movements and how to effect systemic change
Citizenship It can be useful to consider ‘citizenship’ as a 3 part typology which shows three different ways that citizenship can be understood and the sort of citizenship education required for each. ‘personally responsible citizen’: for whom citizenship education increases their awareness of their individual rights and responsibilities; the citizen as a ‘voter’ and ‘volunteer’ ‘participatory citizen’: for whom citizenship education enhances knowledge of participatory structures and rights; the citizen as an individual within a group(s), actively participates in existing structures, takes up opportunities for participation, including participation in the planning and delivery of services ‘justice-orientated citizen’: for whom citizenship education adds a high level of awareness of collective rights and a high level of collective political and social responsibility, including responsibilities to engage with issues of social justice and equality; the citizen as a critical friend to those in power, participates within group(s), actively challenges unequal relations of power, promotes social solidarity and social justice, both locally and beyond, taking account of the global context Individual citizenship personally responsible citizen Active citizenship participatory citizen Critical citizenship justice orientated citizen Core assumptions To solve social problems and improve society, citizens must have good character, be honest, responsible and law abiding members of the community To solve social problems and improve society, citizens must actively participate and take leadership positions with established systems community structures To solve social problems and improve society, citizens must question, debate and change established systems and structures that reproduce patterns of injustice over time Aims Acts responsibly in own community Is active member of community, organisations and/or political parties Critically assesses social, political and economic structures which leads to social injustice Attitude Is a citizen to the government Gives critical support to the government Has a critical distance from the government Knowledge Knows about the political system Votes Knows how government agencies work Know how to organise collective tasks Knows how government agencies work Know about social democratic movements and how to effect systemic change