Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, special issue edited by Dr Nathan Fretwell

Dr Nathan Fretwell has edited a special issue on “Educational Activism” for the journal Education, Citizenship and Social Justice.

The special issue captures cutting-edge research in the fields and brings together an international collection of papers offering insights into struggles over education in a variety of different contexts. These include papers exploring activism in British, American and Indian universities as well in schools and early years settings. It even includes a fascinating contribution employing comics-based research methods! As a whole, the collection documents how education settings can become important sites for collective mobilisation and active citizenship.

Nathan himself has two pieces of research in the special issue. The first “Battleground education: Activism, protest and campaigning in diverse educational contexts” introduces the special issue, surveys contemporary research in the field, and offers a novel conceptualisation of educational activism to guide and  develop further understanding of this fertile area of study. The second “Learning, sharing and caring: Pedagogical features of parents’ educational activism” attends to the kinds of learning that occur through becoming involved in campaigns and parents’ perceptions of the educative potential of engaging in activism as a means for imparting democratic values to their children and teaching them to stand up for what they believe is right. 

The full special issue can be viewed here and many of the articles included are open access.