The multi-dimensions of citizenship education

Abstract

Citizenship education encompasses a plethora of dimensions and can provide healthy tools and skills for young people to wield. This could help them to attempt to understand their own past, as natives of these Islands, their present, with all of its democratic promises and fulfillments as well as their future, full of exciting discoveries in a serene and healthy environment. This research project is a comparative study and was carried out amongst young people at school, work and following a tertiary level of education at university, using various methods of data-collection. A number of interviews were also held with professionals in various fields who work, in a direct or indirect way, with young people, followed by a focus group with secondary-school teachers. The areas tackled include civic responsibility, the impact of the media and welfare. The analysed data is presented in user-friendly figures, tables and graphs followed by an in-depth discussion on the findings. The findings indicate that little has been done following the submission of research dissertations by three previous Youth and Community Studies graduates.