Journal article
Social justice storytelling and young children's active citizenship
Discourse (Abingdon, England), Vol.31(3), pp.363-376
01/07/2010
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Abstract
This paper examines empirical data with regard to recent theorizing and conceptualizing of children's citizenship. It draws on a doctoral study where the author told social justice stories to one class of children aged five to six years to investigate the active citizenship that the stories set in motion. By imagining this action research study rhizomatically, organic and tangent pathways were mapped of what the stories set in motion. Analysis was informed by poststructuralist discourse theory and critical theory on political action, which enabled identification of enablers and constrainers of young children's actual practice of citizenship. A case is argued for acknowledgement of young children's political identities and capacity to act as communitarian citizens.
Details
- Title
- Social justice storytelling and young children's active citizenship
- Creators
- Louise G Phillips (Author) - Faculty of Education , University of Southern Queensland
- Publication Details
- Discourse (Abingdon, England), Vol.31(3), pp.363-376
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991012931699302368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article