{"id":3942,"date":"2013-03-16T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2013-03-13T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:08:35","slug":"3942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2013\/03\/3942\/","title":{"rendered":"Revista de Ense\u00f1anza de las Ciencias Sociales: Education for Dangerous Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last February I had the privilege of presenting the keynote address to IX International Conference on Research in Teaching Social Science organized by Research Group on Teaching of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Education Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.<\/p>\n

The talk I gave in Barcelona was based on work I have been doing in collaboration with Kevin D. Vinson (University of the West Indies) and a paper based on the Barcelona talk has just been published by Revista de Ense\u00f1anza de las Ciencias Sociales<\/em><\/a> (Journal of Social Science Education), which is jointly published by the Institute of Educational Sciences of the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Here is the abstract:<\/p>\n

Revista de Ense\u00f1anza de las Ciencias Sociales<\/em><\/a>
\nVolume 2012 No. 11 December 2012<\/p>\n

LA EDUCACI\u00d3N PARA UNA CIUDADAN\u00cdA PELIGROSA<\/a>
\nE. Wayne Ross y Kevin D. Vinson<\/p>\n

El concepto de educaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica se encuentra bajo la influencia de las im\u00e1genes dominantes y dominadoras m\u00e1s que en la autentica comprensi\u00f3n de la complejidad de las realidades diarias del aula. Bas\u00e1ndose en los trabajos de Debord y Foucault, especialmente en sus visiones libertarias y antiest\u00e1ticas del poder, de la autoridad y del control en la sociedad contempor\u00e1nea, este art\u00edculo examina c\u00f3mo el control social se ejerce a trav\u00e9s de las im\u00e1genes dominantes y una mezcla de vigilancia y espect\u00e1culo. En respuesta a estas condiciones, desarrollamos el concepto de \u00abciudadan\u00eda peligrosa\u00bb. Reclamamos que las condiciones contempor\u00e1neas requieren de una Educaci\u00f3n para la Ciudadan\u00eda antiopresiva, que se tome en serio las desigualdades sociales y econ\u00f3micas, y la opresi\u00f3n fruto del capitalismo neoliberal que restringe las posibilidades antiopresivas y establece unas pedagog\u00edas oficiales y sancionadoras. El poder pedag\u00f3gico de la ciudadan\u00eda peligrosa reside: 1) en la capacidad de alentar al alumnado y al profesorado sobre las implicaciones de su propia ense\u00f1anza y aprendizaje; 2) en visualizar una educaci\u00f3n focalizada en la libertad y en la democracia, y 3) en interrogar y deconstruir sus bienintencionadas complicidades con el sistema a partir de pr\u00e1cticas y textos culturales, especialmente para relacionar las condiciones opresivas con las pr\u00e1cticas culturales del mismo estilo, y viceversa.<\/p>\n

EDUCATION FOR DANGEROUS CITIZENSHIP
\nConceptualizations of public schooling rest upon the influence of dominant and dominating images rather than on more authentic understandings of the complex realities of classroom life. Drawing upon the work of both Debord and Foucault, particularly their libertarian and anti-statist visions of power, authority, and control in contemporary society, this article examines how social control is exercised via controlling images and a merger of surveillance and spectacle. In response to these conditions we develop the concept of \u201cdangerous citizenship.\u201d We argue that contemporary conditions demand an anti-oppressive citizenship education, one that takes seriously social and economic inequalities and oppression that result from neoliberal capitalism and that builds upon the anti-oppressive possibilities of established and officially sanctioned pedagogies. The pedagogical power dangerous citizenship resides in its capacity to encourage students and educators to challenge the implications of their own education\/instruction, to envision an education that is free and democratic to the core, and to interrogate and uncover their own well-intentioned complicity in the conditions within which various cultural texts and practices appear, especially to the extent that oppressive conditions create oppressive cultural practices, and vice versa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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