{"title":"Rethinking Citizenship and Citizenship Education in Contemporary China: Discourses and Politics","authors":"Sicong Chen","doi":"10.1080/10611932.2020.1716607","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The field of citizenship education witnessed an expanding body of literature looking at the case of China. Yet citizenship with broad conceptual terrain often refers to different things in the literature. This paper foregrounds the common core of the essentially contested concept of citizenship and considers citizenship conception as discourse. By engaging with and drawing evidence from extant literature, this paper critically examines citizenship in the academic and related official and social discourses. It discloses the discursive conformity among the academic, official, and social discourses of citizenship in mainland China and discusses the politics beneath the conformity. It suggests that the fundamental values of liberty and equality constitutive of the common core of citizenship should not be lost but localized to serve as the conceptual and analytical compass in the contestation of citizenship and citizenship education discourses in contemporary China.","PeriodicalId":39911,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Education and Society","volume":"7 1","pages":"13 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Chinese Education and Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611932.2020.1716607","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract The field of citizenship education witnessed an expanding body of literature looking at the case of China. Yet citizenship with broad conceptual terrain often refers to different things in the literature. This paper foregrounds the common core of the essentially contested concept of citizenship and considers citizenship conception as discourse. By engaging with and drawing evidence from extant literature, this paper critically examines citizenship in the academic and related official and social discourses. It discloses the discursive conformity among the academic, official, and social discourses of citizenship in mainland China and discusses the politics beneath the conformity. It suggests that the fundamental values of liberty and equality constitutive of the common core of citizenship should not be lost but localized to serve as the conceptual and analytical compass in the contestation of citizenship and citizenship education discourses in contemporary China.
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How is China"s vast population being educated in the home, the school, and the workplace? Chinese Education and Society is essential for insight into the latest Chinese thinking on educational policy and practice, educational reform and development, pedagogical theory and methods, colleges and universities, schools and families, as well as the education for diverse social groups across gender and youth, urban and rural, mainstream and minorities. It features unabridged translations of the most important articles in the field from Chinese sources, including scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. It also provides refereed research on specific themes.
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