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  • "Children, fooles, and mad-men" : children`s relationship to citizenship in Britain from Thomas Hobbes to Bernard Crick
    Cockburn, Tom
    In recent years interest in children's relationship to citizenship has mushroomed. This has largely been prompted by the rise of interest in the promotion of "children's rights". However, children's ... relationships to citizenship, or more accurately the exclusion of children from citizenship, has formed the basis of theories of citizenship since the classic social contractarians of the enlightenment. In the theories of citizenship of Hobbes,Locke, Mill amongst others, children are often countered as the binary opposite to the rational male citizen. Or, at best, treated as citizens in potentia, where children's value lies in their ability to be moulded into'`full' citizens in their adult lives. In 1998 Bernard Crick's report to the Advisory Group on Education and Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy was premised on the model of children as "pre-rational" and "pre-moral" beingsfrom whom a "citizenship culture" can be created. This paper examines the nature of children's relationship to citizenship in the writings of key theorists. It also offers a critique of these theories and explores ways in which children's contributions to society can be recognised. I argue that in practice our normative assumptions about children have moved beyond the view of children in potentia towards one where children can and do participate in major decisions within the family, the law, their communities and their schools. It is therefore crucial to recognise and develop children's citizenship rights, as well as their duties, if any "citizenship education" programme is to become meaningful to young people.
    Vir: The School field : international journal of theory and research in education. - ISSN 0353-6807 (Vol. 10, no. 3/4, Autumn/Winter 1999, str. 65-84)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 1999
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 506711

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