Democratic citizenship in the UK exhibits problems of disengagement with politics

英国的民主公民身份表现出与政治脱节的问题，自2001年以来较低的选举投票率就是明证。此外，最近对2017年大选中的“青年地震”的怀疑支持了年轻公民继续以低于老年人的水平参与的证据。2002年在学校引入公民教育，旨在帮助弥补这一“代沟”。我的论文将发展一种批判，即由于对政治本质（斗争）的理论误解，政治公民权被过于狭隘地关注。因此，我的研究项目是，在心脏，我们如何可能会增加“政治素养”的“演示”通过开发适度的调查，四面楚歌，公民教育议程。本文将通过对英国公民教育文献语料库的批评性话语分析来研究这一批评，然后将分析与我自己的访谈和焦点小组进行“三角”分析

Democratic citizenship in the UK exhibits problems of disengagement with politics, as evidenced by lower levels of electoral turnout since 2001. Moreover, recent scepticism regarding the 'youthquake' in the 2017 general election, supports the evidence that younger citizens continue to participate at lower levels than older cohorts. The introduction of citizenship education to schools in 2002 was intended to help remedy this 'generation gap'. My thesis will be to develop a critique that political citizenship has been too narrowly focused due to a theoretical misapprehension of the essential nature of politics (agonism). My research project is therefore, at heart, an investigation into how we might increase the 'political literacy' of a 'demos' by developing the modest, and embattled, agenda of citizenship education. The critique will be investigated by means of a critical discourse analysis of the corpus of citizenship education documents in the UK, then 'triangulating' the analysis with my own interviews and focus groups