Teaching New Subjects: citizenship and curriculum reform

本研究旨在探讨儿童与青少年公民参与与课程改革之间的关系，特别是由格雷厄姆·唐纳森教授独立审查课程和评估(《成功的未来》，2015)引发的威尔士当前的教育改革计划。尽管儿童与青少年公民参与被排除在某些形式的公民参与(国家选举、陪审员职责等)之外，但他们确实有其他形式的民事诉讼机会，例如学校选举、青年议会、志愿服务、环保主义和政治活动。然而，随着英国政府承认民主和政治参与(Uberoi，2015)，尤其是在年轻人中，围绕公民教育学的辩论已经加剧。在这种背景下，当前的改革提供了一个独特的机会，可以直接比较两种教育方法及其对青少年公民参与度下降这一感知问题的影响。这项研究的核心是，公民参与是通过官方课程教得最好，还是通过经验学到最好。这项研究将继续收集和分析WMC的数据，并在此过程中，为WISERD多队列研究提供可用的数据集，这反过来也可以被其他研究人员利用。文献回顾发现，没有CYP声音重点研究专门与公民参与和课程改革的概念有关--尽管存在许多与CYP声音和课程设计更广泛相关的研究。正是在这一空白中，本研究希望加深对该领域当前的理解，并为当前的文献做出贡献。

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between children and youngpeople's (CYP) civic engagement and curriculum reform, specifically the current program ofeducational reform in Wales resulting from Professor Graham Donaldson's Independentreview of curriculum and assessment (Successful futures, 2015).Whilst CYP are precluded from some forms of civic engagement (national elections, juryduty etc) they do have other opportunities to engage in civil action in the form of forexample, school elections, youth parliaments, voluntarism, environmentalism and politicalactivism.However, with the UK government acknowledging falling democratic and politicalparticipation (Uberoi, 2015), especially amongst the young, the debate surroundingcitizenship pedagogy has intensified. In this context the current reform offers a uniqueopportunity to directly compare two educational approaches and their impact on theperceived problem of falling civil engagement among the young.At the heart of this research then is the question of whether civic engagement is best 'taught'through the official curriculum or 'learnt' through experience.This study will continue the collection and analysis of WMCS data and in so doing,contribute to the data set available on the WISERD multi-cohort study, this in turn can beutilized by other researchers.The literature review found no CYP voice focused research relating specifically to the notionof civic engagement and curriculum reform - although much exists in relation to CYP voiceand curriculum design more generally. It is in this gap that this study hopes to further thecurrent understanding in the field and contribute to the current literature.