Practice as Prize: Citizenship Education in two Primary Classrooms in Ireland

Abstract: While citizenship education forms part of the formal curriculum at primary level in Ireland, its inclusion as a strand unit of Social, Personal and Health Education, rather than as a discrete subject, tends to make it less visible. In practice, citizenship education is strongly influenced by external agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active in the field as the dominant producers of teaching resources and programmes in the area. In many cases, these programmes are award-driven, requiring schools to compete with others for recognition or to exemplify a particular standard of practice.  Using thick description (Geertz 1973) and teachers' narratives, this article presents two cases based on the practice of two experienced primary teachers who negotiate the complex space between professional practice and the particular agendas of external agencies and NGOs. Focusing on two exemplars of their teaching, the article locates their work within the broader context of citize.... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/678

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Practice as Prize: Citizenship Education in two Primary Classrooms in Ireland ; volume:13 ; number:1 ; day:13 ; month:02 ; year:2014 ; Journal of social science education ; 13, Heft 1 (13.02.2014)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Waldron, Fionnuala ; Ruane, Brian ; Oberman, Rowan

Further information

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-678
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011815502029771498
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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