What is it about?

This is the editorial for a Special Issue in Civics, citizenship, participation and political literacy published in SET. The authors included in this special edition of SET responded to the challenge to write for and engage, busy teachers and school leaders. The resulting collection offers some inspiring evidence-based thinking and suggestions for teaching and learning about civics (loosely defined as knowledge, skills and shared expectations of citizens who participate in, and sustain, democracies); citizenship (understood here as both a legal status of having rights and responsibilities and a lived experience, of being, belonging and participating in a community), and political literacy (the critical thinking skills to understand and interpret information, make informed choices & consider the power relationships and consequences of decisions).

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Why is it important?

Papers in this special issue confirm that the processes of teaching citizenship is never politically neutral, but neither are classrooms. Exploring this in a number of ways, the articles offer a range of ideas and provocations for citizenship education. The special issue also offers something special, a collection of short exemplars of everyday transformative citizenship learning in an era of growing inequality, multi-culturalism and community engagement.

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This page is a summary of: Editorial, December 2016, NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research,
DOI: 10.18296/set.0049.
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