scotland citizenship

It might be argued that language (or societal knowledge) testing for citizenship operates as a "boundary object" per Macqueen et al, 2015, in which case we need to be aware of what is on the other side of that boundary. That is, what does citizenship mean in Scotland? Here I summarise what I have learned from peer reviewed journal articles found with a Primo Central search in the Strathclyde library database, published since 2009, which came up with a little less than 150 results. I've chosen those articles whose abstract indicated greatest relevance to testing, migration or education. 

Akhtar (2008) presents an uncritical view of Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2002, and looks at translating theory about citizenship teaching into classroom practice. A "capable citizen" not only possesses "knowledge and skills" but also knows how and when to apply them. It might be objected that these are vague terms, and that all humans must possess "knowledge and skills" of some sort  to function at all.

Becares et al, 2011 is a quantitative study which deploys measures of cohesion and, based on those measures, finds that it is economic deprivation which disrupts social cohesion rather than ethnic homogeneity. To adapt Akhtar's reasoning, we might say that making all neighbourhoods more affluent will supply everyone with the knowledge and skills they need for capable citizenship. 

I am examining the role of citizenship in Scotland at a time when concepts of national identity are being interrogated. This is an ongoing process. Bechhoffer & McCrone, 2012 is a follow-up study to the one they conducted with data from 2006, (McCrone & Bechoffer, 2010). In both sets of research, the central question is whether participants' own sense of national identity affected their acceptance or rejection of claims to national identity of people born elsewhere, comparing data from England and from Scotland. 

[The above was written yesterday, Tuesday. I've just had another read of the submission feedback, and I'm being asked to concentrate on the ESOL aspect, which means of course Test Validity Paradigms. So I'll publish this now, and come back to Bechoffer & McCrone, and everything else connected with Scotland and Citizenship, in a new post].
 

REFERENCES

Akhtar, S. (2008). The implementation of education for citizenship in Scotland: recommendation of approaches for effective practice. Improving Schools, 11(1), 33–48. http://doi.org/10.1177/1365480207086752

Becares, L., Stafford, M., Laurence, J., & Nazroo, J. (2011). Composition, Concentration and Deprivation: Exploring their Association with Social Cohesion among Different Ethnic Groups in the UK. Urban Studies, 48(13), 2771–2787. http://doi.org/10.1177/0042098010391295

Bechhofer, F., & McCrone, D. (2012). Changing claims in context: national identity revisited. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 9870(August 2015), 1–21. http://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2012.676204

Bond, R., Charsley, K., & Grundy, S. (2010). An Audible Minority: Migration, Settlement and Identity Among English Graduates in Scotland. Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 36(3), 483–499. http://doi.org/10.1080/13691830903357983

Chisari, M. (2015). Testing citizen identities: Australian migrants and the Australian values debate. Social Identities, 4630(September), 1–17. http://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2015.1013931

de Leeuw, M., & van Wichelen, S. (2012). Civilizing migrants: Integration, culture and citizenship. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(2), 195–210. http://doi.org/10.1177/1367549411432029

Fortier, A.-M. (2013). What’s the big deal? Naturalisation and the politics of desire. Citizenship Studies, 17(6-7), 697–711. http://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2013.780761

Freeman, M. (2009). Education and citizenship in modern Scotland. History of Education, 38(3), 327–332. http://doi.org/10.1080/00467600902872764

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