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20 SES 07 B, Innovative Pedagogies and HE
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Contribution
Young adults’ limited citizenship is seen as a social problem. It is figured in young adults’ lack of voice in what concerns broad and narrow matters that may affect their lives, such as social policies and the ways they learn. The study stands on two main questions: What ways do young adults located in a relatively disadvantaged school and community build their citizenship? And how far do gender relations shape the forms of citizenship created by these young Portuguese? Therefore, citizenship and voice are the two main notions at stake here.
In this paper we explore the concept of citizenship and the ways ‘voice’ emerges as an important dimension within this construct. We locate the conceptual discussion of citizenship within the field that translates the tensions between young adults’ dependent status and their location as citizenship construction actors. While making resource to an eclectic range of scholarly discussion, we edify the argument on the discussion of T. H. Marshall concept of citizenship that is contrasted with post-structural perspectives, feminist in particular (eg. Iris Young, Ruth Lister & Nancy Fraser). The framework for the evolution of the concept of citizenship and the emersion of voice is quite mutable. We argue it moves from a more universal modern concept of the citizen, associated to welfare states in Europe, within which young adults remained invisible; to a notion that stands on post modern casuistic recognition. The latter is connected to the globalisation dynamics and the construction of Europe. It tends to legitimate issuing young adults the role of educational stakeholders. We argue that this perspective is not alien to the concerns with the making of the global citizen and justifies the need to refigure citizenship and to legitimate the emergence of voice. After setting the theoretical and social framework for the current discussion of citizenship, we illustrate how young adults build their citizenship within school on the basis of the empirical work described below. The discussion of young adults’ citizenship building is made around four axes: i) dependency/independency-interdependence; ii) inclusion-exclusion; iii) citizenship and social change; and iv) citizenship and voice.
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References
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