Tackling inequalities in political socialisation: A Systematic analysis of Access to and Mitigation Effects of Learning Citizenship at School

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tackling inequalities in political socialisation: A Systematic analysis of Access to and Mitigation Effects of Learning Citizenship at School

AU - Hoskins, Bryony

AU - Janmaat, Jan Germen

AU - Melis, Gabriella

PY - 2017/9/28

Y1 - 2017/9/28

N2 - This article tackles the issue of social inequalities in voting and identifies how and when differences in learning political engagement are influenced by social background in the school environment between the ages of 11e16 in England. Using Latent Growth Curve Modelling and Regression Analysis on the Citizenship Education Longitudinal (CELS) data this research identifies two elements that influence the political socialisation process: access to political learning and effectiveness in the form of learning in reducing inequalities in political engagement. The results show that there is unequal access by social background to learning political engagement through political activities in school and through an open classroom climate for discussion. However, there is equal access by social background to Citizenship Education in schools and this method of learning political engagement is effective at the age of 15e16 in reducing inequalities in political engagement.© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

AB - This article tackles the issue of social inequalities in voting and identifies how and when differences in learning political engagement are influenced by social background in the school environment between the ages of 11e16 in England. Using Latent Growth Curve Modelling and Regression Analysis on the Citizenship Education Longitudinal (CELS) data this research identifies two elements that influence the political socialisation process: access to political learning and effectiveness in the form of learning in reducing inequalities in political engagement. The results show that there is unequal access by social background to learning political engagement through political activities in school and through an open classroom climate for discussion. However, there is equal access by social background to Citizenship Education in schools and this method of learning political engagement is effective at the age of 15e16 in reducing inequalities in political engagement.© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

KW - Political socialisation

KW - inequalities

KW - voting

KW - citizenship education

KW - open classroom climate

KW - political participation

U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.09.001

DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.09.001

M3 - Article

SN - 0049-089X

JO - SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

JF - SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

M1 - Ref: SSR_2016_436_R2

ER -