Overview

Project Overview

The Creating Citizenship Communities project is funded by a generous grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and is in collaboration with the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). In relation to community cohesion this research project will identify current thinking and practice in schools; explore young people’s perceptions and practice; and, through the development of a focused impact strategy encourage partnerships to be established between professionals and others. These partnerships will enhance learning through - and for - community cohesion.

Using a variety of research methods that include a literature review, analysis of secondary data, a representative survey of schools in England, and eight case studies we will:

• ascertain activities for community cohesion that are managed by schools and to what extent these initiatives are perceived by students to contribute to their understanding and practice;
• ascertain how students characterise community cohesion and what range of community (both virtual and actual) activities they are engaged in within and beyond school;
• produce a wide range of resources for new approaches to learning (for policy makers; academics; and, professionals and young people).

For more information about the project and to be added to our electronic mailing list please email education-citizen@york.ac.uk.

Staff

Advisory Group

Presentations

Presentations

Creating citizenship communities: Local, national and global
University of York 24 - 26 May 2012

Maria Tsouroufli, Vanita Sundaram, Gillian Hampden-Thompson, Ian Davies, Pippa Lord and Jen Jeffes.  ‘We treat them all the same’: Diversity, inclusion and school communities in England. Paper presented at the joint conference of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network (CiCe), CitizED, and the Creating Citizenship Communities research project, May 24th-26th 2012, York, UK.

Ian Davies, Gillian Hampden-Thompson, Maria Tsouroufli, Pippa Lord, Jen Jeffes and Vanita Sundaram. Creating citizenship communities. Paper presented at the joint conference of the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Academic Network (CiCe), CitizED, and the Creating Citizenship Communities research project, May 24th-26th 2012, York, UK.

I. Davies. Citizenship, community, education’. Invited paper at the CiCe Annual Conference 2011 The Thirteenth annual CiCe Network Conference: Europe’s Future: citizenship in a changing world. Dublin City University, Ireland, 9 - 11 June 2011

I. Davies, G. Hampden-Thompson, G. Burley, Calhoun, J., V. Sundaram, M. Tsouroufli. ‘Citizenship education and community cohesion’. Invited paper to the conference “Citizenship Education and Civic Engagement”, Emory University, Georgia, USA, May 2011.

I. Davies. Creating Citizenship Communities: researching issues and developing impact. An invited seminar paper at Cambridge University on 25 March 2011.

I. Davies, G. Hampden-Thompson, G. Burley, Calhoun, J., V. Sundaram, M. Tsouroufli. ‘Researching citizenship education and community cohesion’. Invited lecture for an audience of researchers and academics, Kyoto, Japan 5 March 2011.

I. Davies, G. Hampden-Thompson, G. Burley, Calhoun, J., V. Sundaram, M. Tsouroufli. ‘How can citizenship education help develop community cohesion? Invited lecture and workshop for an audience of teachers, Kyoto, Japan 4 March 2011.

Hampden-Thompson, G., Bramley, G., Davies, I., Sundaram, V., Tsouroufli, M. (2011) Creating citizenship communities. Invited presentation at the seminar Social Science Education in Comparative Perspective, University of Hamburg, Germany, 3-4 February.

Publications

Davies, I., Hampden Thompson, G., Sundaram, V., Tsouroufli, M., Jeffes, J., & Lord, P. (2013).  Creating Citizenship Communities, Final Report. Department of Education, University of York.

Creating Citizenship Communities Final Report May 2013 (PDF , 561kb)

Davies, I., Hampden Thompson, G., Sundaram, V., Tsouroufli, M., Jeffes, J., & Lord, P. (2012). Creating Citizenship Communities, Research Brief, Issue 4. Department of Education, University of York.

Project Research Brief 4 - May 2012 (PDF , 225kb)

Jeffes, J., Lord, P., Bramley, G., Davies, I., Hampden-Thompson, G., Tsouroufli, M., & Sundaram, V. Creating Citizenship Communities through New Approaches to Learning Survey of school coordinators and leaders on community cohesion and citizenship

Creating Citizenship Communities Report Feb 12 (PDF , 1,930kb)

Davies, I., Hampden Thompson, G., Sundaram, V., Tsouroufli, M., Jeffes, J., & Lord, P. (2011). Creating Citizenship Communities, Research Brief, Issue 3. Department of Education, University of York.

Project Research Brief 3 - February 2012.pdf (PDF , 262kb)

Davies, I., Hampden Thompson, G., Sundaram, V., Tsouroufli, M., Jeffes, J.,Lord, P. (2011). Creating Citizenship Communities, Research Brief, Issue 2. Department of Education, University of York.

Project Research Brief 2 - December 2011 (PDF , 398kb)

Davies, I., Hampden Thompson, G., Sundaram, V., Tsouroufli, M., Jeffes, J.,Lord, P., Bramley, G., Calhoun, J. (2011). Creating Citizenship Communities, Research Brief, Issue 1. Department of Education, University of York.

Project Research Brief 1 - June 2011.pdf (PDF , 290kb)