Citizenship, democracy and education
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Delivered at eTwinning Nordic Seminar on democratic participation and education in Iceland, November 2019.
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Citizenship, democracy and education
- 1. Citizenship, Democracy and Education Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D. e-Twinning Nordic Seminar Reykjavík, Iceland November, 2019
- 2. A Tale of Two Tryggvis To whom are my allegiances, especially if I perceive some sort of conflict?
- 3. Democracy and Citizenship The Democracy A sphere of social influence The Citizen A self-determining individual member of a society or societies Allegiances Obligations Rights
- 4. A little experiment: Who here is a citizen of… The Milky Way Galaxy Iceland GermanyCuba Finland Our solar system Europe Digital citizen
- 5. Youth and politics “Participation in political activities is in crisis, especially when it comes to young people, and this is a major issue facing contemporary democracies.” Kitanova, 2019
- 6. The “crisis” in brief: • Declining participation in elections • Declining participation in political organizations • Declining trust in government institutions (Harvard University Institute of Politics)
- 7. Yet… Arab Spring Free the Nipple Me Too movement Greta Thunberg March for our Lives SlutWalk Extinction Rebellion (or what Boris Johnson referred to as the “uncooperative crusties”) Movements initiated by and/or led by young people and all largely involving online communities.
- 8. What is the crisis? Is it that: Youth are politically disengaged? Or New forms of political engagement are emerging that threaten the status quo? Are we asking the right questions in trying to diagnose the issue?
- 9. Some challenges for the future •Minimise the short-termism of the 4 year election cycle. •Future generations as a represented constituency (Krznaric, 2019). Need for long-term political commitments: •Direct democracy •Electronic voting Participatory democracy: •Of what are we citizens (online societies, inter-/transnational societies)? •Who is eligible for citizenship (AI, robots)? •What rights & obligations do citizenship entail? •Is citizenship always total or can we be partial citizens? Evolving notions of citizenship: •Simulated realities •Maker cultures & societies (hacktivism 2.0) New forms of political engagement:
- 10. CREATIVITY LIBERAL ARTS CRITICAL THINKING COLLABORATION AND TEACH ABOUT THE FUTURE! Educate for the Future
- 11. Thank you and have a very productive seminar! Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D. @tryggvithayer tbt@hi.is http://education4site.org
Editor's Notes
- Allegiance Obligation Rights
- Allegiances matter: To whom do individuals owe their allegiances? What do they perceive as their obligations to whom they owe their allegiances? What do they perceive as their rights
- Kitanova, M. (2019). Youth political participation in the EU: evidence from a cross-national analysis. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-18.
- Harvard University Institute of Politics, Executive Summary: Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service, 27th ed., Harvard Public Opinion Project (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 29 April 2015). Available from http://www.iop.harvard.edu/sites/de- fault/files_new/IOPSpring15PollExecSumm.pdf.
- Krznaric, R. (March 19, 2019). Why we need to reinvent democracy for the long-term. BBC Future. Accessed at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190318-can-we-reinvent-democracy-for-the-long-term Note – I am not using “partial citizenship” in the sense that Parreñas uses it in Parreñas, R. (2015). Servants of globalization: Migration and domestic work. Stanford University Press.