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Social Justice and Education for Citizenship in England

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In this chapter, we define and then discuss the background to and the issues associated with social justice and education in England. Social justice has long been identified by policy-makers as a key priority. Very different approaches have been adopted including selective education, common schooling (or comprehensives) for all, as well as current neoliberal approaches in which strong control by central government occurs at the same time as individual schools operate with greater autonomy. We discuss particular issues that affect social justice including the National Curriculum; namely, school structures, aspirations and pedagogies. We then consider the changes in citizenship education and the connections with social justice.

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    Andrew Peterson

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  3. Program of Educational Studies, Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, Cyprus

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  4. Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Peterson, A., Davies, I. (2016). Social Justice and Education for Citizenship in England. In: Peterson, A., Hattam, R., Zembylas, M., Arthur, J. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51507-0_18

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