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Classroom counternarratives as transformative multicultural citizenship education

Starkey, H; (2021) Classroom counternarratives as transformative multicultural citizenship education. Multicultural Education Review 10.1080/2005615X.2021.1964266. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper examines pedagogical responses to James Banks’s concept of failed citizenship, namely the structural factors that inhibit migrants and minorities from accessing fully functioning citizenship and their human rights. Banks commissioned and published 16 case studies of social studies teachers in different national contexts to illustrate and exemplify transformative civic education. These illustrate his theories of failed citizenship and transformative citizenship education. Analysing this dataset through the lenses of failed citizenship, human rights and counternarratives, the paper provides empirical evidence to support and illustrate the theories. These minority teachers working in hostile cultural environments are very aware of the dangers of failed citizenship for their students. They use pedagogical strategies that have been theorized in critical race theory and human rights education including countering homogenizing national official narratives and promoting students’ counternarratives asserting the value of their heritage languages and cultures and asserting their rights to freedom of expression.

Type: Article
Title: Classroom counternarratives as transformative multicultural citizenship education
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/2005615X.2021.1964266
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/2005615X.2021.1964266
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Keywords: Human rights; transformative citizenship education; counternarratives; failed citizenship; hostile environment
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124027
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