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Citizenship, Schooling, and ‘Educational Disadvantage’

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Hattam takes up the issue of citizenship, schooling and ‘educational disadvantage’, and ponders the following questions: What does citizenship education mean to students attending schools that serve predominantly low socio-economic communities? Or, perhaps more to the point, what could it mean if their schools took citizenship seriously? Hattam positions schooling as playing a key role in the constitution of the citizen, before arguing that contemporary citizenship education is defined in terms of a weak version of citizenship that supports trends towards de-democratization and authoritarian forms of governmentality. The chapter defines educational disadvantage and theories of citizenship, before providing a brief account of the influence of neoliberalizing social policies. It continues to review recent moves in Australia to refashion citizenship education in ways that simultaneously ignore the rising economic inequalities, and the strangling of citizenship that is being waged by the nation. Finally, Hattam provides a tentative conclusion that argues for adopting citizen virtue as a metaphor for citizenship-as-equality.

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Notes

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    In September 2001, the Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone) Act 2001 and the Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone) (Consequential Provisions) Act 2001.

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    During the past ten years, Lynton Crosby has worked for David Cameron, Michael Howard, Boris Johnson (all leaders of the UK Conservative Party) and Philip Morris (the tobacco company).

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    http://www.acara.edu.au/default.asp

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    For the IPA (from 1999): All roads lead to Canberra; Outcomes Based Education: Dumbed Down and Politically Correct; In defence of a liberal education; Failing to Indoctrinate; Latham Needs to Rediscover the Basics; Funding: a no-brainer election issue.

    Education Reform: Who Should Control the Curriculum?; Used Anglicans.

    And for Quadrant magazine: Chairman Rudd’s Education Revolution; The Dubious Quest for a National Curriculum; The Misguided Case for Indigenous Recognition in the Constitution (Part II); Getting the Schools Back to Basics; Government Schools Good, Other Schools Bad; A Back-to-Nonsense Curriculum; The Fabian Fallacies of the Gonski Report; The Case for Abolishing Government Schools; The Literacy Wars by Ilana Snyder.

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    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/13/australias-judeo-christian-heritage-doesnt-exist

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    See https://docs.education.gov.au/node/36269

  7. 7.

    See https://docs.education.gov.au/documents/review-australian-curriculum-supplementary-material

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    Robert Hattam

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    Andrew Peterson

  2. Sch of Edu, Mawson Lakes Campus, University of South Australia, Magill, South Australia, Australia

    Robert Hattam

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

    Michalinos Zembylas

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

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Hattam, R. (2016). Citizenship, Schooling, and ‘Educational Disadvantage’. 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_2

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