Activist Citizenship Education: A Framework for Creating Justice Citizens

This book explores alternative models of civics and citizenship education. Specifically, it uses Justice Citizens, a participatory research and film—making project, as a tool to examine young people’s ideas about active citizenship and participation in public spaces. It introduces a framework that seeks to explore the diverse and apparently contradictory nature of young people’s active citizenship. The framework draws on complexity theory combined with critical pedagogy and democratic educa...