Social capital and civics and citizenship: Developing a framework for activist education

Publisher:
West Australian Institute for Educational Research
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Issues in Educational Research, 2015, 25 (3), pp. 276 - 290
Issue Date:
2015
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participants. This paper explicates a framework that can be used to analyse how effectively programs are developing active citizenship and activism amongst the participants, especially with a view towards their ongoing participation in civil society. Such a framework will be of use to practitioners seeking to analyse their programs, as well as policy makers interested in developing new programs of civics and citizenship education, or evaluating existing ones. Foregrounding the research in the context of civics and citizenship education in Australia, I illustrate the development of the framework through an activist education program, Justice Citizens, which took place in a Western Sydney high school. Justice Citizens is a useful example to examine the efficacy of the framework; it was a student-centred film voice project that required students to engage with issues in their local community
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