Assignment 2
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP - A means of exclusion?
It has been claimed that schools should be society's chosen agency for training for citizenship'. Discuss the link between citizenship and education and ways in which this relationship has changed over the 20th century.
Illustrate your discussion with reference to aspects of Australia education and students with disabilities.
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP - A means of exclusion?
Although institutions such as the family and church play a significant role in preparing children for adult life, schools are Australia's primary training ground for its future citizens. Marginson (1997) claims that unlike other institutions, schools remain open to government intervention and social change (Marginson, 1997, p.5) and therefore enable the promotion of certain values, certain knowledges all of which are determined by the government. This essay will argue that schools are thus clearly a training ground for citizenship, but differentially so. Society is made up of various groups gender, race, ethnic, religious, socio-economic each of which is positioned differentially in relation to the rights and opportunities available to them as Australian citizens. One such group is children labelled as special' children with disabilities. The purpose of this essay is to examine citizenship as it relates to education, and special education' particularly, and the ways in which this relationship has changed over the past century.
According to The American Webster's Dictionary of Law, a citizen is "a native or naturalized individual who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to the enjoyment of governmental protection and to the exercise of civil rights" ("Merriam-Webster's dictionary of law", 1996). Citizenship is the active state of being a citizen. Education is the knowledge and development resulting from the process of being educated ("Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law", 1996), whilst special... [continues]
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP - A means of exclusion?
It has been claimed that schools should be society's chosen agency for training for citizenship'. Discuss the link between citizenship and education and ways in which this relationship has changed over the 20th century.
Illustrate your discussion with reference to aspects of Australia education and students with disabilities.
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP - A means of exclusion?
Although institutions such as the family and church play a significant role in preparing children for adult life, schools are Australia's primary training ground for its future citizens. Marginson (1997) claims that unlike other institutions, schools remain open to government intervention and social change (Marginson, 1997, p.5) and therefore enable the promotion of certain values, certain knowledges all of which are determined by the government. This essay will argue that schools are thus clearly a training ground for citizenship, but differentially so. Society is made up of various groups gender, race, ethnic, religious, socio-economic each of which is positioned differentially in relation to the rights and opportunities available to them as Australian citizens. One such group is children labelled as special' children with disabilities. The purpose of this essay is to examine citizenship as it relates to education, and special education' particularly, and the ways in which this relationship has changed over the past century.
According to The American Webster's Dictionary of Law, a citizen is "a native or naturalized individual who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to the enjoyment of governmental protection and to the exercise of civil rights" ("Merriam-Webster's dictionary of law", 1996). Citizenship is the active state of being a citizen. Education is the knowledge and development resulting from the process of being educated ("Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law", 1996), whilst special... [continues]
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