Some General Principles of Good Citizenship.

In the context of an increasingly pluralist and in some ways troubled society, work was undertaken to investigate the role of formal education and non-educational organisations in building good citizenship in girls and young women (9-19 years old). Different stages in the developmental process are identified, and the paper describes a number of ways in which experiential and attitudinal information was obtained from the range of respondents: these included a Citizen's Forum and quantitative omnibus research. Methodologies to involve the young people in focused and relevant debate during the one-day Forum were developed and are discussed.

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Noble Polish Sexuality and the Corrupted European Body

Intersections ◽

10.17356/ieejsp.v6i3.656 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Randi Gressgård ◽

Rafał Smoczynski

Keyword(s):

Sex Education ◽

Historical Context ◽

Political Campaigns ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Moral Integrity ◽

Political Debates ◽

Good Citizenship ◽

Political Struggles ◽

Empty Signifier ◽

Political Divide

This article attends to the instrumentalization of gender and sexuality in recent Polish political campaigns. Locating current political debates in a cultural-historical context of long-established hierarchical divides, it conceives of gender and sexuality as ‘empty signifiers’ deployed in political struggles (for hegemony) over notions of civic responsibility, good citizenship and articulations of Europeanness. Similarly, it takes ‘Europeanness’ as an empty signifier, without any essential meaning, arguing that these signifiers are key to understanding recent mobilizations around moral frontiers in Polish politics. Illustrative examples serve to elaborate how LGBT rights and sex education are instrumentalized among self-proclaimed liberals as well as rightwing nationalists, seeking to guarantee the moral integrity of the nation according to an antagonistic logic. On both sides of the political divide, we witness a self-orientalizing positioning towards the European ‘core’, whether phrased in terms of sexual modernity or Christian civilization.

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Becoming Citizens: Dialogical Document Work in the Classroom of the People’s Home

Proceedings from the Document Academy ◽

10.35492/docam/2/1/14 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Anna Hampson Lundh ◽

Mats Dolatkhah

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

Information Science ◽

The Political ◽

Library And Information Science ◽

Good Citizenship ◽

Political Project ◽

Post War ◽

Reading Activity ◽

Reading Activities ◽

The Welfare State

The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to analyse how a particular reading activity in a post-war Swedish comprehensive school, was part of the larger social and political project of the welfare state, and tied to the notion of good citizenship. Thereby, and secondly, the paper aims to illustrate how dialogical document theory enables the study of reading, and possibly other types of document work and practices. The analysis of a speech by a teacher about what can be learnt from a short story during a Swedish lesson in a primary school in 1968 illustrates how document work such as reading activities are value-laden, and tied into ideologies and political projects. In this specific case, reading is in dialogue with the political project of realising the democratic and egalitarian “People’s home” which, somewhat paradoxically, required the disciplining of its young citizens. It is concluded that a dialogical document theory, which focuses on document work as it unfolds in localised activities and at the same time on situation-transcending documentary practices, can be useful for studies within Library and Information Science on reading in both utilitarian and pleasure oriented empirical contexts.

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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

10.3386/w16722 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 59

Author(s):

Lance Lochner

Keyword(s):

Good Citizenship

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What money can’t buy: an argument against paying people to get vaccinated

Journal of Medical Ethics ◽

10.1136/medethics-2021-107235 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. medethics-2021-107235

Author(s):

Nancy S Jecker

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Vaccine Hesitancy ◽

Short Term ◽

Healthy Communities ◽

Good Citizenship ◽

Mutant Strains ◽

The Cost ◽

Better Than

This paper considers the proposal to pay people to get vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The first section introduces arguments against the proposal, including less intrusive alternatives, unequal effects on populations and economic conditions that render payment more difficult to refuse. The second section considers arguments favouring payment, including arguments appealing to health equity, consistency, being worth the cost, respect for autonomy, good citizenship, the ends justifying the means and the threat of mutant strains. The third section spotlights long-term and short-term best practices that can build trust and reduce ‘vaccine hesitancy’ better than payment. The paper concludes that people who, for a variety of reasons, are reluctant to vaccinate should be treated like adults, not children. Despite the urgency of getting shots into arms, we should set our sights on the long-term goals of strong relationships and healthy communities.

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