Subject English as citizenship education

• Published in: British educational research journal Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 320 - 339
• Main Authors: Belas, Oliver, Hopkins, Neil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Wiley-Blackwell 01.04.2019; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Acculturation; Apathy; British English; Citizenship; Citizenship Education; citizenship/civic education; Cultural heritage; Cultural Pluralism; Education policy; Education reform; Educational Change; Educational History; Educational Policy; Educational systems; Elementary education; English and post‐/colonialism; English Instruction; English Literature; English literature/language; Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; identity (national, racial, multicultural); Imagination; Inequality; Language Usage; Liberalism; Literary criticism; Literature; Moral Values; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Philosophy; Political Attitudes; Political philosophy; Politics; Populism; Radicalism; Social Differences; Social Isolation; Teaching Methods; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom > UK; England

This article is equal parts educational history and political philosophy. We aim to remind readers that subject English (SE) and indeed state education emerge from the contradictory impulses of classical liberalism, and that, more than simply resembling citizenship education, SE emerges in the first...