Exploring Citizenship and Community in Education in England

Abstract

‘Community’ and ‘citizenship’ are centrally important means by which we characterise society and establish mechanisms for societal improvement. Whereas the previous chapter was deliberately broad-brush in its efforts to identify key issues that apply across countries, this chapter synthesises what empirical data principally (but not exclusively) from England suggest about young people’ sense of, involvement in, and barriers to, community with reference to what schools can do to promote understanding and participation.