Citizenship Education And The Monarchy: Examining The Contradictions

Abstract

This paper addresses the teaching of citizenship in schools and focuses on the monarchy as an example of one issue often ignored within curriculum discourse. We argue that to conflate subjecthood and citizenship in unacknowledged ways may serve to perpetuate the status quo and is potentially unhelpful to the development of young people's critical thinking.

Keywords:

• citizenship
• republicanism
• monarchy
• subjecthood
• critical thinking