Making It Real: Engaging Students in Active Citizenship Projects

Abstract

Active citizenship as an ethical and pedagogical orientation to the classroom, to political education, and to school-community projects. Move beyond the idea of citizenship education to learning about the original and practices of democracy and create opportunities for students to engage in the realpolitik of democracy. In Australia, a case study focused on two active citizenship activities for 13 year olds==restoration of a creek area within the school grounds as a educational and recreational resource for the school and broader community and a cross-age tutoring project