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Teaching Frameworks for Participation – Can We? Should We?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Annabel Kiernan
Annabel Kiernan*
Affiliation:
Department of Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester M15 6LL, UK
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E-mail: A.Kiernan@mmu.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article reflects on the challenges that social and political disengagement pose within the university environment, and offers an alternative pedagogical solution centred on praxis. To retain the functional role of education for the reproduction of democracy, the article contends that the challenges posed by mass education, the corporatisation of university life and the alienating impact of neoliberal discourse mean that the solution to engagement and participation within university, and beyond, lies in teaching activism.

Keywords

activismpedagogydemocracyparticipation

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European Political Science , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 2012, pp. 186 - 195
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Copyright © 2011 European Consortium for Political Research

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