Vocabularies of citizenship: a survey of British Columbian secondary students' experiences and understandings in the field of citizenship education

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dc.contributor.authorElbert, Jamie
dc.contributor.supervisorCode, Jillianne
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-03T15:45:00Z
dc.date.available2018-01-03T15:45:00Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2018-01-03
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractBeginning in earnest in the 1990s, research and political communities have taken a strong interest in citizenship education both in Canada and worldwide, but in the context of secondary schools this has resulted in primarily theoretical papers rather than empirical analyses of student experiences. The student voice is particularly important to the study of citizenship education given the complexity of constructed civic subjectivities and the rapidly changing definitions of community, including the relationships between local, national and global. Canada has been characterized as post-national or even without identity, and its young people are caught up in the persisting narrative of young apathy when it comes to politics and civic duty. Drawing on theories of national and global citizenship, this exploratory mixed methods study of 104 British Columbian secondary students investigates student vocabularies of citizenship in order to map current youth understandings of citizenship and experiences in their secondary education. In discussing the results, I challenge the narratives of Canada as a meaningless signifier and youth as apathetic, and investigate scholarly concerns regarding the depoliticization of citizenship, and the potential conflict inherent to the globalization of youth identities. Finally, I discuss best practices in citizenship education with reference to established scholarly research and the student-based findings of the present study.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/8938
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectcitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectcitizenship educationen_US
dc.subjectsecondary studentsen_US
dc.subjectmixed methodsen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectCanadianen_US
dc.subjectcivic subjectivityen_US
dc.titleVocabularies of citizenship: a survey of British Columbian secondary students' experiences and understandings in the field of citizenship educationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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