Democratizing Politics and Politicizing Education: Critical Pedagogy for Active Citizenship in the Taiwanese Sunflower Movement

Autor/inn/en	Themelis, Spyros; Hsu, Tao-Chen
Titel	Democratizing Politics and Politicizing Education: Critical Pedagogy for Active Citizenship in the Taiwanese Sunflower Movement
Quelle	In: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 16 (2021) 2, S.180-194 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Themelis, Spyros)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1746-1979
DOI	10.1177/1746197920915601
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Politics of Education; Power Structure; Social Change; Critical Theory; Activism; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; College Faculty; College Students; Citizen Participation; Citizenship; Democracy; Foreign Countries; Social Justice; Plants (Botany); Political Attitudes; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Sozialer Wandel; Kritische Theorie; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Fakultät; Collegestudent; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Staatsbürgerschaft; Demokratie; Ausland; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Pflanze; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung
Abstract	This article is the first to employ a Freirean framework to discuss the Taiwanese Sunflower Student Movement and its political, pedagogical and social significance. We analyse lecturers' and students' perspectives and experiences of civic responsibility in order to explore the relationship between critical pedagogy and student participation in the movement. The latter is an important development in politics and student activism, as it touched the lives of an entire generation of young Taiwanese and highlighted the value of active citizenship in the fight to improve democracy as praxis for social justice. This article makes a threefold contribution: first, it adds to our understanding of the processes through which movement participants cultivate their critical consciousness; second, it offers a new angle on a politically significant moment in Taiwanese history; and third, it uses this movement to illuminate forms of oppression that exist in society and education and ways to transform it. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01