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The Governance of Britain Green paper was presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw, in July 2007. In Chapter 4 Britain’s future: the citizen and the state, it talks about Citizenship and national identity. The paper acknowledges in the opening line that …the concept of Citizenship is a complex one … (2007:53).
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Edmonds, K. (2012). Young People’s Engagement in Society, How Government Policy has Ignored the Role of Youth Work in Citizenship Education. In: Lall, M. (eds) Policy, Discourse and Rhetoric. Educational Futures Rethinking Theory and Practice, vol 52. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-817-9_3
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