TY - INPR TI - Citizenship education in the United Kingdom and the adult migrant KW - citizenship education KW - civic republican KW - English as a Second Language KW - liberal KW - T.H. McLaughlin UR - https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1746197919837829 AV - public JF - Education, Citizenship and Social Justice SN - 1746-1987 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. ID - discovery10075312 PB - SAGE Publications Y1 - 2019/03/29/ A1 - Shah, Q N2 - This article explores the policy reasons behind Adult ESOL Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom and then examines whether Adult ESOL Citizenship Education adequately prepares migrants for active citizenship in T.H. McLaughlin?s ?maximal? sense: involving active political participation premised upon a shared concept of democratic culture underpinned by rights and obligations. It argues that Adult ESOL Citizenship Education, as envisaged by Bernard Crick and Terence McLaughlin, has fallen short of its maximal conceptualisation due to the watering down of citizenship education and Adult ESOL Citizenship Education in preference to Fundamental British Values, and the Crick reports? ?light touch? to their implementation. The article calls for a need to reassert the reality of the modern nation as pluralistic and rejects the current drive towards monism. It also argues that Adult ESOL Citizenship Education is unlikely to deliver social cohesion and integration, or an actively participatory citizenry, unless issues of social justice and equity are addressed. ER -