Opening discourses of citizenship education: a theorization with Foucault.

in Journal of Education Policy (2013), 28(6), 828-846

We argue two major difficulties in current discourses of citizenship education. The first is a relative masking of student discourses of citizenship by positioning students as lacking citizenship and as ... [more ▼]

We argue two major difficulties in current discourses of citizenship education. The first is a relative masking of student discourses of citizenship by positioning students as lacking citizenship and as outside the community that acts. The second is in failing to understand the discursive and material support for citizenship activity. We, thus, argue that it is not a lack of citizenship that education research might address, but identification and exploration of the different forms of citizenship that students already engage in. We offer a fragmentary, poststructuralist theorization oriented to explore the ‘contemporary limits of the necessary’, drawing on specific resources from the work of Michel Foucault and others for the constitution of local, partial accounts of citizenship discourses and activities, and exploration of their possibilities and constraints. We argue this as a significant tactic of theorization in support of an opening of discourses of citizenship and in avoiding the discursive difficulties that we have identified. Our theorization, then, is significant in its potential to unsettle discourses that confine contemporary thought regarding citizenship education and support exploration of what might be excessive to that confinement. [less ▲]

Time out? Can education do and be done without time?

in Szkudlarek, T; Sultana, R (Eds.) Education and the political: New theoretical articulations (2013)

George Herbert Mead: Formation through communication.

in Siljander, P; Kivelä, A; Sutinen, A (Eds.) Theories of ‘Bildung’ and growth. Connections and controversies between Continental educational thinking and American pragmatism (2012)

Combining methodologies: Mixed methods

in Arthur, J.; Waring, M.; Coe, R. (Eds.) et al Research methods and methodologies in education. (2012)

De school als toegang tot de wereld

in Klarus, R. (Ed.) Wat is goed onderwijs? Capita selecta. (2012)

Becoming world-wise: An educational perspective on the rhetorical curriculum

in Journal of Curriculum Studies (2012), 44(6), 815-826

Have lifelong learning and emancipation still something to say to each other?

in Studies in the Education of Adults (2012), 44(1), 5-20

Acts of public pedagogy: Notes on a forgotten art

in Ledesma, A (Ed.) Cities within your city: Situation art in public spaces (2012)

(Re)constructing the theory and philosophy of education: An introduction

in Biesta, Gert (Ed.) Making sense of education: Fifteen contemporary educational theorists in their own words (2012)

How is community done? Understanding civic learning through psychogeographic mapping.

in International Journal of Lifelong Education (2012), 31(1), 47-61