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Learning citizenship through social participation outside and inside school: an international, multilevel study of young people's learning of citizenship

Learning citizenship through social participation outside and inside school: an international, multilevel study of young people's learning of citizenship
Learning citizenship through social participation outside and inside school: an international, multilevel study of young people's learning of citizenship
In this article we revisit and re?analyse data from the 1999 IEA CIVED transnational study to examine the factors associated with the ways in which young people learn positive attitudes towards participation in, and knowledge and skills about democracy. Less formal learning, wherever it takes place, has recently been conceptualised as a process of social participation, and we explore its effects using Lave and Wenger’s and Wenger’s understanding of learning through communities of practice. This is then contrasted with the effect of the volume of civic education. The analysis shows that learning through social participation, both inside and outside school, and in particular through meaning?making activities shows a strong positive relationship with citizenship knowledge, skills and dispositions across a wide range of countries. Moreover, it demonstrates the usefulness of situated learning theory in the field of civic learning, and its applicability in large?scale, quantitative studies
0141-1926
419-446
Hoskins, Bryony
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Janmaat, Jan Germen
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Villalba, Ernesto
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Hoskins, Bryony
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Hoskins, Bryony, Janmaat, Jan Germen and Villalba, Ernesto (2011) Learning citizenship through social participation outside and inside school: an international, multilevel study of young people's learning of citizenship. British Educational Research Journal, 38 (3), 419-446. (doi:10.1080/01411926.2010.550271).

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In this article we revisit and re?analyse data from the 1999 IEA CIVED transnational study to examine the factors associated with the ways in which young people learn positive attitudes towards participation in, and knowledge and skills about democracy. Less formal learning, wherever it takes place, has recently been conceptualised as a process of social participation, and we explore its effects using Lave and Wenger’s and Wenger’s understanding of learning through communities of practice. This is then contrasted with the effect of the volume of civic education. The analysis shows that learning through social participation, both inside and outside school, and in particular through meaning?making activities shows a strong positive relationship with citizenship knowledge, skills and dispositions across a wide range of countries. Moreover, it demonstrates the usefulness of situated learning theory in the field of civic learning, and its applicability in large?scale, quantitative studies

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Published date: 17 March 2011
Organisations: Lifelong & Work-Related Learning

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Local EPrints ID: 194863
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/194863
ISSN: 0141-1926
PURE UUID: fad92649-c1e9-4cda-b102-73addb8d6588

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Date deposited: 11 Aug 2011 14:34
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 04:00

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Author: Bryony Hoskins
Author: Jan Germen Janmaat
Author: Ernesto Villalba

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