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Citizenship formation for a new millennium in Sweden: a prognosis of our time
University of Skövde, School of Health and Education. University of Skövde, Health and Education. Stockholm University, Centrum för de humanistiska ämnenas didaktik (CeHum). (Kvinna, barn, familj)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1776-478X
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2014 (English)In: The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, ISSN 2051-0969, E-ISSN 1740-2743, Vol. 12, no 2, p. 200-224Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this article is to forecast the present situation of citizenship formation in the field of Swedish education. In highlighting trends and tendencies in the educational assignment to provide for democratic citizenship in the first decade of the 21st century, which can be characterised as lacking collective visions for change, three depictions of citizenship are prevailing: citizenship formation for deliberation, for entrepreneurship and for therapeutic intervention. These depictions are analysed in terms of the direction for action taking and attention that they stress and produce as concerns citizenship in the making. The first one, citizenship formation for deliberation, stresses an inward-looking and inward-feeling citizenship. The second one, citizenship formation for entrepreneurship, stresses an inward-looking and outward-making citizenship, and the third one, citizenship formation for therapeutic intervention, stresses an inward-looking and outward-making citizenship. Taking on this forecast, which actualises democracy as something that is already achieved as a consequence of an assumedly post political situation, we argue that citizenship as well as society itself risks being pictured as apolitical and democratically “saturated.” This situation is hazardous, we argue, as it does not open up for change to come into question as desirable or even possible. Put differently, it leaves us with the notion that things have to be as they are, as we are living in the best of worlds. 

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Institute for Critical Education Policy Studies , 2014. Vol. 12, no 2, p. 200-224
Keywords [en]
citizenship, citizenship education, citizen formation, education, democracy, apolitical
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Humanities Didactics
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Humanities and Social sciences; Woman, Child and Family (WomFam)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-10810OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-10810DiVA, id: diva2:799296
Available from: 2015-03-30 Created: 2015-03-30 Last updated: 2021-02-10Bibliographically approved

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