Young children’s citizenship membership and participation: comparing discourses in early childhood curricula of Australia, New Zealand and the United States

Phillips, Louise, Ritchie, Jenny, and Adair, Jennifer Keys (2020) Young children’s citizenship membership and participation: comparing discourses in early childhood curricula of Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 50 (4). pp. 592-614.

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Abstract

Recognition of young children as citizens is relatively new in sociology, with translation emerging into education. Discourses of children and childhood shape ideas of young children as citizens and national discourses of citizenship frame what civic participation can be. The authors analysed national early childhood education curricula frameworks of Australia, New Zealand and the United States to understand how discourses authorise constructions of children as citizens and opportunities for young children’s civic participation. They sought to locate how children are positioned as citizens and what opportunities there are for young children’s citizenship participation in national early childhood curricula documents of Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Illustrative examples of children’s citizenship membership and participation from the three nations’ early childhood curricula were critically read to locate how prevalent discourses of children, childhood and citizenship in each nation define children as citizens and shape possibilities for citizenship participation for young children.

Item ID: 60527
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1469-3623
Keywords: Citizenship education; discourse analysis; early childhood; curricula; young children
Copyright Information: © 2018 British Association for International and Comparative Education
Funders: The Spencer Foundation
Projects and Grants: SF New Civics Initiative grant number 201400172
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2019 06:35
FoR Codes: 39 EDUCATION > 3903 Education systems > 390302 Early childhood education @ 34%
39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390199 Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified @ 33%
39 EDUCATION > 3902 Education policy, sociology and philosophy > 390203 Sociology of education @ 33%
SEO Codes: 93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9303 Curriculum > 930301 Assessment and Evaluation of Curriculum @ 50%
94 LAW, POLITICS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES > 9402 Government and Politics > 940201 Civics and Citizenship @ 50%
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