{"title":"Teacher and student interpretations of global citizenship education in international schools","authors":"Caroline Ferguson, Peter Brett","doi":"10.1177/17461979231211489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231211489","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores conceptualisations of global citizenship education expressed by teachers and students in international schools. Using qualitative research, three schools were investigated in the Netherlands, Finland, and Australia. Data for this study was drawn from phenomenological interviews with secondary school students, teachers, and school leaders. The study’s findings show that young people experience global citizenship through feelings of a global community, by participating in curriculum-based community service, within charity frameworks, but also in student activism. Teachers and school leaders displayed conceptual uncertainty of global citizenship education and tended to stay within their comfort zones. The article concludes that international schools could benefit from more social justice oriented approaches to global citizenship education.","PeriodicalId":503967,"journal":{"name":"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice","volume":"73 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139183770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micropolitical strategies in student-teacher partnerships: Students’ and teachers’ perspectives on student voice experiences","authors":"Jetske Strijbos, Nadine Engels","doi":"10.1177/17461979231206915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231206915","url":null,"abstract":"Due to their transformative potential, student-teacher partnerships offer exceptional opportunities for student participation at school. However, partnering is also found to be troublesome as participants face considerable challenges associated with change processes in complex and hegemonic organizations such as schools. With this study, we aim to understand how students and teachers cope with these challenges by mapping the micropolitical strategies they adopt. Five teachers and 14 students from three cases were interviewed about their experiences with partnering. Three domains were identified in which respondents, based on various interests, adopt more or less constructive micropolitical strategies: (1) common goals that are relevant to both participants and the school, (2) responsibilities to achieve these goals, and (3) emotions. The paper concludes by raising implications for schools, for example, the need for a school-wide approach to clearly position and support future partnership initiatives, and for micropolitical literacy within the partnership to articulate and align unspoken expectations.","PeriodicalId":503967,"journal":{"name":"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice","volume":"22 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139240013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care and justice: How elementary teachers adapt experiences for social issues","authors":"O. M. Odebiyi","doi":"10.1177/17461979231206917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231206917","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored how elementary teachers identified and adapted their personal experiences, or lack of them, to address social issues that students face in classrooms. The study involved six elementary school teachers. Using ethics of care and justice theories, the findings show that teachers use their own experiences to help them make decisions about social issues for students and to engage in practices that center care and justice for young learners. However, not all teachers react the same way to these issues. Some are resistant to addressing social issues facing young learners in their classrooms, while others are more open to taking responsibility for addressing such issues. If a teacher has not experienced social issues themselves or has not learned about social issues from others, it is harder to understand teachers’ intention to extend practices focusing on care and justice to their students. Representing these dimensions are themes (1) resonance and in/experience of the margin, (2) evoking interest group pedagogy, and (3) fostering empathy as a curriculum of care. Implications are discussed in light of deploying in/experience and pedagogy centered on social justice, care, and needs in elementary education.","PeriodicalId":503967,"journal":{"name":"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice","volume":"11 37","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139240035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Filipe Piedade, Carla Malafaia, Tiago Neves, Manuel Loff, Isabel Menezes
{"title":"The role of emotions in critical thinking about European politics: Confronting anti-immigration rhetoric in the classroom","authors":"Filipe Piedade, Carla Malafaia, Tiago Neves, Manuel Loff, Isabel Menezes","doi":"10.1177/17461979231208163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231208163","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of anti-immigration arguments within the European Union (EU) poses significant challenges to our democratic existence. As such, the promotion of critical thinking (CT) for the development of a multicultural citizenship education has been underlined. Recent research also shows a close connection between emotions and cognition with positive effects over students’ motivation to engage in CT. Through the analysis of focus groups with 61 Portuguese secondary school students, this research shows that they are critical about democratic political values and practices at the EU level, and highly motivated to discuss controversial political and humanitarian issues that are emotionally engaging. Educational practices that encourage the discussion of controversial topics in the classroom, welcoming students’ emotional engagement with these topics, can increase their resilience to anti-immigration rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":503967,"journal":{"name":"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice","volume":"2013 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Your School Needs You to Buy a Poppy’: Dominance and fragility in school remembrance practices","authors":"Anna Liddle","doi":"10.1177/17461979231210997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231210997","url":null,"abstract":"Generated by the centenary of the First World War, there has been an increased interest in how war is commemorated in English schools. Whilst other authors have argued that the way in which remembrance is marked in schools is militarised and nationalistic, this article reports on a single school case study to provide a deeper discussion of how this is reproduced in everyday practices and a consideration of how alternative forms of remembrance are resisted. Butler’s concept of ‘grievability’ is deployed to interpret the practices where some lives are privileged above others in commemoration creating a militarised ‘red poppy remembrance discourse’. I go on to argue that this discourse, although dominant, is also fragile in nature and attempts to counter this are treated with suspicion to maintain nationalistic and war-normalising messages for the next generation.","PeriodicalId":503967,"journal":{"name":"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice","volume":"103 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Girl power? Ethics of joy and becoming Chilean feminist high school students in relation to ideal citizenship normativities","authors":"Valentina Errázuriz","doi":"10.1177/17461979231211488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231211488","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces the narratives and experiences of feminist high school students during the Chilean feminist movement of 2018 and explores their relations with normative political and gender subjectivization processes happening at their schools. The data for this article was produced through a critical ethnographic study in a Chilean all-female public high school, which included participant observation, testimonial interviews, arts-based collective testimonial workshops, and analyzed through affect theory. This article shows how this school reproduced binary norms under traditionally feminine parameters and at the same time neoliberal ones that demanded that students be successful and resilient women who individually managed to become productive members of society in the future. The student participants in this study were critical of how their school and their teachers tried to produce them as these types of gendered citizens. They managed to become feminist students in relation to these norms and at the same time create discourses, actions, and materialities that produced more just spaces for them in the present. This article suggests that reading the relations between the feminist students’ becomings and new gendered citizenship normativity deployed at school through a relational and affirmative ethics lens identifies relevant and often unseen aspects in research about structural oppression and resistance.","PeriodicalId":503967,"journal":{"name":"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice","volume":"12 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139240103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Everyday experiences of Islamophobia in university spaces: A qualitative study in the United Kingdom","authors":"Chris Allen","doi":"10.1177/17461979231210996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231210996","url":null,"abstract":"Two recent reports suggest that Muslim students are experiencing increased levels of Islamophobia while studying at universities in the United Kingdom (UK). While so, the issue has attracted little scholarly investigation. Responding to this gap in the literature, this article sets out new and previously unpublished findings drawn from qualitative research undertaken with more than 70 Muslim students enrolled at four UK universities. Having set out the methodological approaches, this article begins by contextualising the research within the broader scholarly study of contemporary Islamophobia. Having framed the findings within the context of critical Islamophobia theory, the findings are set out using a threefold thematic structure. This structure affords an insight into the everyday experience of Islamophobia in university spaces and includes: hate incidents on campus; Othering in the learning and teaching spaces; and, microaggressions in university accommodation. In doing so, this article generates new knowledge about the everyday nature of Islamophobia as experienced by Muslim students within university spaces in the UK today.","PeriodicalId":503967,"journal":{"name":"Education, Citizenship and Social Justice","volume":"14 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139241230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}