4,177
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Young children’s citizenship membership and participation: comparing discourses in early childhood curricula of Australia, New Zealand and the United States

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon &

References

  • Adair, J. K., L. G. Phillips, J. Ritchie, and S. Sachdeva. 2017. “Civic Action and Play: Examples from Maori, Aboriginal Australian and Latino Communities.” Early Child Development and Care 187 (5–6): 798–811. doi:10.1080/03004430.2016.1237049.
  • Alcock, S., and M. Haggerty. 2013. “Recent Policy Developments and the “Schoolification” of Early Childhood Care and Education in Aotearoa New Zealand.” Early Childhood Folio 17 (2): 21–26.
  • Anckar, C. 2008. “On the Applicability of the Most Similar Systems Design and the Most Different Systems Design in Comparative Research.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 11 (5): 389–401. doi:10.1080/13645570701401552.
  • Ang, L. 2015. “Rethinking Child-Centred Education.” In The Sage Handbook of Curriculum Pedagogy and Assessment, edited by D. Wyse, L. Hayward, and J. Pandya, 141–152. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. 2009. Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Education.
  • Baltodano, M. 2012. “Neoliberalism and the Demise of Public Education: The Corporatization of Schools of Education.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 25: 1487–1507. doi:10.1080/09518398.2012.673025.
  • Belich, J. 1996. Making Peoples. A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Auckland: Penguin.
  • Bellamy, R. 2008. Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Berry, D. R. 2017. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
  • Bloch, M., D. Kennedy, T. Lightfoot, and D. Weyenberg, eds. 2006. The Child in the World/The World in the Child: Education and the Configuration of a Universal, Modern, and Globalized Childhood. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Bologna, C. 2016. “Teacher’s Inspiring Mantra for Students Will Reaffirm Your Hope for the Future.” Huffington Post, November 11. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/teachers-inspiring-mantra-for-students-will-reaffirm-your-hope-for-the-future_us_5829cf29e4b060adb56f3de5
  • Bowes, J. 2007. “Australia: Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education.” In Early Childhood Education International Encyclopaedia, edited by R. New and C. Mocrieff, 883–887. Vol. 4. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
  • Brennan, D. 1998. The Politics of Australian Child Care: Philanthropy to Feminism and Beyond. Rev. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Brown, C. P., N. Weber, and Y. C. Yoon. 2015. “The Practical Difficulties for Early Educators Who Tried to Address Children’s Realities in Their High-Stakes Teaching Context.” Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 36 (1): 3–23. doi:10.1080/10901027.2014.996925.
  • Campbell, A. E., ed. 1938. Modern Trends in Education: The Proceedings of the New Education Fellowship Conference Held in July, 1937. Wellington: Whitcombe and Tombs.
  • Castles, S., M. Kalantzis, B. Cope, and M. Morrissey. 1988. Mistaken Identity: Muticulturalism and the Demise of Nationalism in Australia. Sydney: Pluto Press.
  • Chartier, A.-M., and N. Geneix. 2006. “Pedagogical approaches to early childhood education.” Background paper prepared for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007, Strong foundations: early childhood care and education. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001474/147448e.pdf
  • Corsaro, W. 2005. The Sociology of Childhood. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
  • Dagger, R. 2002. “Republican Citizenship.” In Handbook of Citizenship Studies, edited by E. F. Isin and B. S. Turner, 145–157. London: Sage Publications.
  • Davis, J. M. 2010. “What Is Early Childhood Education for Sustainability?” In Young Children and the Environment: Early Education for Sustainability, edited by J. M. Davis, 7–31. Cambridge Books Online: Cambridge University Press.
  • Derman-Sparks, L. and the A.B.C. Task Force. 1989. Anti-Bias Curriculum. Tools for Empowering Young Children. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
  • Dryzek, J. S. 1994. “Australian Discourses of Democracy.” Australian Journal of Political Science 29 (2): 221–239. doi:10.1080/00323269408402291.
  • Flanagan, C. 2012. Civic Learning/Civic Action: The State of the Field. Commissioned Report for the Spencer Foundation’s Strategic Initiative on Civic Learning and Civic Action. Chicago, IL: Spencer Foundation.
  • Forrest, J., and K. Dunn. 2006. “’Core’ Cultural Hegemony and Multiculturalism: Perceptions of the Privileged Positions of Australians with British Backgrounds.” Ethnicities 6 (2): 203–230. doi:10.1177/1468796806063753.
  • Fozdar, F., and B. Spittles. 2010. “Patriotic Vs Proceduralist Citizenship: Australian Representations.” Nations and Nationalism 16 (1): 127–147.
  • Gibson, A. 2000. “Ancients, Moderns and Americans: The Republicanism–Liberalism Debate Revisited.” History of Political Thought 21 (2): 261–307.
  • Goldenberg, C., and C. Wagner 2015. Bilingual Education: Reviving and American Tradition. American Educator. Fall issue. https://www.aft.org/ae/fall2015/goldenberg_wagner
  • Hart, D., C. Richardson, and B. Wilkenfeld. 2011. “Civic Identity.” In Handbook of Idenity Theory and Research, edited by S. J. Schwartz, K. Luyckx, and V. L. Vignoles, 771–787. New York: Springer.
  • Heater, D. 1999. What Is Citizenship. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Howe, R. B., and K. Covell. 2005. Empowering Children: Children?S Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Hughes, A. S., M. Print, and A. Sears. 2010. “Curriculum Capacity and Citizenship Education: A Comparative Analysis of Four Democracies.” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 40 (3): 293–309. doi:10.1080/03057920903395528.
  • Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. 1997. Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
  • James, A., C. Jencks, and A. Prout. 1998. Theorizing Childhood. Oxford: Polity Press.
  • Jerome, L. 2017. “What Do Citizens Need to Know? an Analysis of Knowledge in Citizenship Curricula in the UK and Ireland.” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 1–17. doi:10.1080/03057925.2017.1295808.
  • Jorgensen, M., and L. Phillips. 2002. Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method. London: Sage.
  • Katz, L. 1993. “From Our President. Are We Confusing Self-Esteem and Narcissism?” Young Children 49 (1): 2–3.
  • Kessler, S. A., and B. B. Swadener, eds. 1992. Reconceptualizing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Beginning the Dialogue. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Krogh, S., and K. Slentz. 2010. Early Education: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. New York: Routledge.
  • Kymlicka, W. 2001. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Laclau, E., and C. Mouffe. 1985. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso.
  • Lansdown, G. 2005. Innocenti Insight: The Evolving Capacities of the Child. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
  • Letters. 2009. Young Activists. Adelaide Advertiser, April 17. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
  • Lightfoot-Rueda, T., and R. L. Peach. 2015. “Introduction and Historical Perspective.” In Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education: Reconceptualizing Theory, Policy, and Practice, edited by T. Lightfoot-Rueda and R. L. Peach, 3–25. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lomawaima, K. T., and T. L. McCarty. 2006. To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Loos, N. 2007. White Christ: Black Cross. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
  • Lynch, M. 2016. “3 Important Themes of American Culture that Influence Our Schools.” The Advocate, September 19. http://www.theedadvocate.org/3-important-themes-of-american-culture-that-influence-our-schools/
  • MacLean, N. 2010. “The Civil Rights Movement: 1968—2008.” Freedom’s Story, TeacherServe. National Humanities Center. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm2008.htm
  • MacLure, M. 2003. Discourse in Educational and Social Research. Buckingham: Open University Press.
  • MacNaughton, G. 2007. Trials and Transitions to Citizenship: What Really Matters in Early Childhood Education?. Dean’s Lecture Series. Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne.
  • MacNaughton, G., P. Hughes, and K. Smith. 2007. “Young Children's Rights and Public Policy: Practices and Possibilities for Citizenship in the Early Years.” Children & Society 21 (6): 458–469.
  • MacNaughton, G., P. Hughes, and K. Smith, eds. 2008. Young Children as Active Citizens: Principles, Policies and Pedagogies. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Marsh, I. 2008. “Re-Imagining the Australian State: Political Structures and Policy Strategies.” In Australia under Construction: Nation-Building Past, Present and Future, edited by J. Butcher, 147–171. Canberra: ANU Press.
  • May, H. 1997. The Discovery of Early Childhood. Auckland: Bridget Williams Books, Auckland University Press.
  • May, H. 2001. “Mapping Some Landscapes of Colonial-global Childhood [email protected].” European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 9 (2): 5–20. doi: 10.1080/13502930185208731.
  • May, H. 2005. “A ‘Right as Citizen to A Free [Early Childhood] Education.’ 1930s–2000s.” Childrenz Issues 9 (2): 20–49.
  • McGillivray, A. 1997. Governing Childhood. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company.
  • McLachlan, C., and A. Arrow. 2011. “Literacy in the Early Years in New Zealand: Policies, Politics and Pressing Reasons for Change.” Literacy 45: 126–133. doi:10.1111/j.1741-4369.2011.00598.x.
  • Millei, Z., and J. Sumsion. 2011. “The ‘Work’ of Community in Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.” Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 12 (1): 71–85.
  • Milne, B. 2013. The History and Theory of Children’s Citizenship in Contemporary Societies. Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Moran, A. 2005. Australia: Nation, Belonging and Globalization. New York: Routledge.
  • Moss, P., G. Dahlberg, S. Grieshaber, S. Mantovani, H. May, A. Pence, M. Vandenbroeck, B. B. Swadener, and M. Vandenbroeck. 2016. “The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s International Early Learning Study: Opening for Debate and Contestation.” Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 17: 343–351. doi:10.1177/1463949116661126.
  • Mouffe, C. 1991. “Democratic Citizenship and the Political Community.” In Community at Loose Ends, edited by Miami Theory Collective, 70–82. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Press.
  • Mutch, C. 2004. “Educational Policy and Notions of Citizenship in Four Asia-Pacific Societies.” Asia Pacific Education Review 5 (2): 178–187. doi:10.1007/BF03024955.
  • National Association for the Education of Young Children. 2009. Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8: A Position Statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
  • New, R. 2000. “The Reggio Emilia Approach: It’s Not an Approach–It’s an Attitude.” In Approaches to Early Childhood Education, edited by J. Roopnarine and J. Johnson, 341–358. Columbus, OH: Merrill.
  • New Zealand Ministry of Education. [1996] 2017. Te Whāriki. He Whāriki Mātauranga mō ngā Mokopuna o Aotearoa: Early Childhood Curriculum. Wellington: Learning Media.
  • O’Connor, J., and A. Brown. 2013. “A Qualitative Study of ‘Fear’ as A Regulator of Children’s Independent Physical Activity in the Suburbs.” Health and Place 24: 157–164. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.09.002.
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 2006. Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care. Paris: OECD.
  • Ortlipp, M., L. Arthur, and C. Woodrow. 2011. “Discourses of the Early Years Learning Framework: Constructing the Early Childhood Professional.” Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 12 (1): 56–70. doi:10.2304/ciec.2011.12.1.56.
  • Owen, D. 2005. “American Identity, Citizenship, and Multiculturalism.” Paper presented at German-American Conference cosponsored by the Bundeszenrale fur politische Bildung and the Center for Civic Education, Freiburg, Germany, September 11–16. http://www.civiced.org/pdfs/germanPaper0905/DianaOwen2005.pdf
  • Pashby, K., L.-A. Ingram, and R. Joshee. 2014. “Discovering, Recovering, and Covering-Up Canada: Tracing Historical Citizenship Discourses in K-12 and Adult Immigrant Citizenship Education.” Canadian Journal of Education 37 (2): 1–26.
  • Perez, M. 2013. “Complicating ‘Victim’ Narratives: Childhood Agency Within Violent Circumstances.” Global Studies of Childhood 4 (2): 126–134.
  • Peterson, A. 2011. Civic Republicanism and Civic Education: The Education of Citizens. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Phillips, L. G. 2011. “Possibilities and Quandaries for Young Children’s Active Citizenship.” Early Education and Development 22 (5): 778–794. doi:10.1080/10409289.2011.597375.
  • Press, F., and A. Hayes. 2001. OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care Policy: Australian Background Report. Sydney: Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University.
  • Rizvi, F., and B. Lingard. 2011. “Social Equity and the Assemblage of Values in Australian Higher Education.” Cambridge Journal of Education 41: 5–22. doi:10.1080/0305764X.2010.549459.
  • Roberts, J. 1981. Massacres to Mining: The Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia. Melbourne: Dove Communications.
  • Robinson, K. H. 2013. Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood: The Contradictory Nature of Sexuality and Censorship in Children’s Contemporary Lives. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Roche, J. 1999. “Children: Rights, Participation and Citizenship.” Childhood 6 (4): 475–493. doi:10.1177/0907568299006004006.
  • Rosenof, T. 2010. “The Propensity to Reform: The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada Compares.” The Historian 72 (1): 38–66. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00256.x.
  • Royal Society of New Zealand. 2013. Languages in Aotearoa New Zealand. https://royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/our-expert-advice/all-expert-advice-papers/languages-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/
  • Rudd, K., and J. Macklin. 2007. "New Directions for Early Childhood Education: Universal access to early learning for 4 year olds." Australian Labor Party. http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/partypol/JRPO6/upload_binary/jrpo63.pdf;fileType=application/pdf.
  • Rudner, J., and K. Malone. 2011. “Childhood in the Suburbs and the Australian Dream: How Has It Impacted Children’s Independent Mobility?” Global Studies of Childhood 1 (3): 207–225. doi:10.2304/gsch.2011.1.3.207.
  • Sawer, M., K. McLaren, and N. Kelly. 2017. “Comparative Politics of Australia and New Zealand.” Oxford Bibliographies. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0008.xml
  • Sheldon, R. 2010. “The Rehetoric of Future Harm: Representtaionsand Figurations of Child in Contemporary American Discourses of Catastrophe.” Doctor of Philosophy thesis, City University of New York.
  • Sims, M. 2014. “Is the Care-Education Dichotomy behind Us? Should It Be?” Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 39: 3–11.
  • Sims, M. 2017. “Neoliberalism and Early Childhood.” Cogent Education 4: 1–10. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/2331186X.2017.1365411?needAccess=true
  • Sims, M., and M. Waniganayake. 2015. “The Performance of Compliance in Early Childhood: Neoliberalism and Nice Ladies.” Global Studies of Childhood 5 (3): 333–345. doi:10.1177/2043610615597154.
  • Sims, M., R. Forrest, A. Semann, and C. Slattery. 2014. “Conceptions of Early Childhood Leadership: Driving New Professionalism?” International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice 18: 149–166. doi:10.1080/13603124.2014.962101.
  • Sinclair, K. 1986. A Destiny Apart. New Zealand’s Search for National Identity. Wellington: Allen & Unwin in Association with the Port Nicholson Press.
  • Smith, R. 1989. “’One United People’: Second-Class Female Citizenship and the American Quest for Community.” Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 1 (2): 229–293.
  • Somerset, G. 1976. Vital Play in Early Childhood. Auckland: New Zealand Playcentre Association.
  • Soto, L. D., and B. B. Swadener, eds. 2005. Power and Voice in Research with Children. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Spoonley, P. 2017. “Renegotiating Citizenship: Indigeneity and Superdiversity in Contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand.” In Citizenship in Transnational Perspective, Politics of Citizenship and Migration, edited by J. Mann, 209–222. Cham: Springer.
  • Stannard, D. E. 1992. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Stover, S. 2013. “Working Theories on ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa, New Zealand.” Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 38: 4–8.
  • Sumsion, J., and S. Barnes. 2010. “Images of Early Childhood Educators in Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.” Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood 8 (2): 34–43.
  • Sumsion, J., and S. Grieshaber. 2012. “Pursuing Better Childhoods and Futures through Curriculum: Utopian Visions in the Development of Australia’s Early Years Learning Framework.” Global Studies of Childhood 2 (3): 230–244.
  • Swadener, B. B., and V. Polakow. 2011. “Introduction to the Special Issue on Children’s Rights and Voice in Research: Cross-National Perspectives.” Early Education and Development 22 (5): 707–713. doi:10.1080/10409289.2011.597028.
  • Swain, D. 1995. “Family Group Conferences in Child Care and Protection and in Youth Justice in Aotearoa/New Zealand.” International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 9 (2): 155–207. doi:10.1093/lawfam/9.2.155.
  • Taylor, A. 2014. “Settler Children, Kangaroos an Dthe Cultural Politics of Australian National Belonging.” Global Studies of Childhood 4 (3): 169–182. doi:10.2304/gsch.2014.4.3.169.
  • Tijsterman, S. 2014. “Global and Cosmopolitan Citizenship.” In Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movement, edited by H.-A. van der Heijden, 177–201. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub.
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2010. The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework. Washington, DC: Office of Head Start.
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2015. The Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five. Washington, DC: Office of Head Start.
  • United Nations General Assembly. 1989. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm
  • van Krieken, R. 1997. “Sociology and the Reproductive Self: Demographic Transitions and Modernity.” Sociology 31 (3): 445–471. doi:10.1177/0038038597031003005.
  • van Krieken, R. 2010. “Childhood in Australian Sociology and Society.” Current Sociology 58 (2): 232–249. doi:10.1177/0011392109354243.
  • Veracini, L. 2010. Settler Coloniaism: A Theoretical Overview. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Walker, R. 2004. Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou. Struggle without end. revised ed. Auckland: Penguin.
  • Walkerdine, V. 1984. “Developmental Psychology and Child Centred Pedagogy: The Insertion of Piaget into Early Education.” In Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity, edited by J. Henriques, W. Hollaway, C. Irwin, C. Venn, and V. Walkerdine, 148–198. London: Methuen & Co.
  • Wanna, J. 2008. “Nation Building in Australia: A Discourse, Iconic Project or Tradition of Resonance?.” In Nation Building, Past, Present and Future, edited by J. Butcher, 1–6. Canberra: ANU Press.
  • Wolfe, P. 2006. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocidal Research 8 (4): 387–409. doi:10.1080/14623520601056240.
  • Wood, E., and H. Hedges. 2016. “Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Critical Questions about Content, Coherence, and Control.” The Curriculum Journal 27 (3): 387–405. doi:10.1080/09585176.2015.1129981.
  • Wyness, M. G. 2000. Contesting Childhood. London: Falmer Press.
  • Yuval-Davis, N. 2011. Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations. London: Sage.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.