Learning in Community: Politicizing Democratic Citizenship Education in Civil Society Organizations
Abstract
This paper examines the literature on civil society organizations as spaces for democratic learning to highlight how they function as civic educators in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. The author presents Westheimer & Kahne’s (2004) What Kind of Citizen framework and aligns its categories of good citizenship with the political theories that underpin them. She points out the absence of multi-forms of, and perspectives on, Indigenous citizenship & nationhood, before applying the framework to the fledgling literature on civil society organizations as spaces for democratic learning. Three prominent types of civil society organizations are reviewed, to include volunteer associations, uniformed youth organizations, and locally formed youth groups. This paper contributes to the field of citizenship education by highlighting the politicized conceptions of citizenship woven throughout these civil society organizations, and showcasing how they function in different ways as civic educators.
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