Society, Politics, and Education in Uncertain Times

Harry Dyer is Associate Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia, UK.Agnieszka Bates is Head of the School of Education at Bath Spa University, UK.John Gordon is Professor of Language Arts and Learning in English Education, and academic lead for CreativeUEA, University of East Anglia, UK.Geoffrey Hinchliffe was Lecturer in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK. He published many articles on a range of subjects, broadly in the domain of the Philosophy of Education, and was author of Liberty and Education: A Civic Republican Approach (Routledge, 2016).

• Part 1. Re-thinking Concepts of Citizenship and Political Education1. Introduction 2. Political education 'in [adjective] times': Predicating and answering to the epochal 3. Individualism, whiteness and depoliticisation: Reframing neoliberal citizenship education in England as social, inclusive and political using a Butlerian lens 4. The role of agency in the development of citizenship 5. On the possibility of democratic citizenship education and decoloniality in (African) schools Part 2. Forms and Expressions of Citizenship 6. Between disenfranchisement and polarisation: Mapping youth online and school-related affective assemblages of civic participation 7. produce, reduce, recycle – phonocenes of citizenship 8. ‘Protest songs as a language arts medium of citizenship educationPart 3. Extending the Practice of Citizenship 9. The school as a civic institution: Learning and doing politics 10. Phenomenology of sociality and relational accounts of personhood: reinstating the moral status of children with profound and multiple learning difficulties11. Exploring the limits of youth participation: An ethnography of volunteering by ‘vulnerable’ youths in the Philippines 12. Critical citizenship after Black Lives Matter: The Case of Decolonising the Curriculum and the Neoliberal University 13. Conclusion