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A crisis in education? An Arendtian perspective on citizenship and belonging in France and England

Welply, O.

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This article draws together a comparative sociological analysis and a political theory perspective to interpret children’s views on the role of school and being a pupil, and what these tell us about their conceptual representations of citizenship and belonging in France and England. The article presents research findings from a cross-national ethnographic study with children aged 10 and 11 years in two primary schools, one in France and one in England. This article shows that children’s views generally reflected national value orientations around citizenship and belonging, but that these conceptions of citizenship were not always fully understood by children, and masked, in some cases, deeper mechanisms of exclusion. This raises questions about the place of citizenship in education in France and England, and calls for a deeper understanding of the ways in which conceptions of citizenship are formed through children’s experience of school.

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Welply, O. (2019). A crisis in education? An Arendtian perspective on citizenship and belonging in France and England. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(6), 759-775. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1592661

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 6, 2019
Online Publication Date Apr 2, 2019
Publication Date Jan 1, 2019
Deposit Date Mar 20, 2019
Publicly Available Date Oct 2, 2020
Journal British Journal of Sociology of Education
Print ISSN 0142-5692
Electronic ISSN 1465-3346
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 40
Issue 6
Pages 759-775
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1592661

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