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The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics range of generic intellectual and personal transferable skills applicable to a variety of careers including postgraduate research. It is hoped that the degree will enable students to undertake postgraduate programmes through which professional qualifications, such as teaching, social work, etc., can be attained. In addition to these professional programmes, citizenship graduates will probably find employment in education, with local authorities, health authorities, non-governmental organisations and voluntary associations. As stated at the beginning of this chapter, the University of Northampton BA in Citizenship programme is very much in the planning stage. It is short on detail as to the precise nature and number of modules to be offered. One thing to be clear is that an experiential element is seen as an essential ‘core’ aspect. To this end we want to develop a highly successful BA in Politics placement with MPs at Westminster to include a voluntary service or ‘service-learning’ element. This will be made an explicit and compulsory part of the educational experience. We see this both as good in itself and as an essential element and necessary precondition for the University of Northampton’s vision of (civil) society and democracy. A second thing that is clear is that we see our role as teachers as one in which we should strive to introduce students to a wider cultural inheritance. Music and film are cultural facts that frame the social situation into which we are born. This may mean reinventing the past for pedagogical purposes, but it also means a module that puts film and music in the picture as repositories of value (perhaps not so difficult if one was politicised by Two Tone and Ghost Town). Citizenship challenges the meaning and role of the university in the twenty-first century. And it also challenges our role as teachers in twentyfirst-century universities. By its very nature, the BA in Citizenship project is ‘normative’. It is and cannot be value-free. But bias should not necessarily be seen as a bad thing if it is tolerant and reasonable. Citizenship, as subject and practice, offers a bridge between the traditional idea of the university as a place to value education for its own sake and as a way of squarely facing the challenge – some would say threat – of a 230
Citizenship as a Roadmap for Change succession of governments committed to business-facing universities, employer engagement and the throttle of skills agendas. This possibility alone should be particularly attractive to those of us in ex-polytechnics or colleges of higher education who have seen the aim of scholarship long neglected. To create transformational educational experiences with integrity should be the art of the possible. As Reinhold Niebuhr might have allowed, adopting the field of citizenship could be a ‘method of finding proximate solutions to [some pretty] insoluble problems’ (1944: 118). This programme is very much a case of ‘work in progress’ but its attempt is certainly a reflection of a strategy. One could say that it is the acceptance that the tide of commercialisation may not easily be stopped, but the recognition that if we acknowledge the current we can at least direct the stream. References Aristotle (1959) Politics and Athenian Constitution, London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Attwood, R. (2009) ‘Edict Curtailing Freedom to Work at Home “Appals Staff”’, Times Higher Education, 2 July. Callan, E. (1997) Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Carter, A. (2006) The Political Theory of Global Citizenship, London: Routledge. Crick, B. (1992) In Defence of Politics, London: Penguin. Crick, B. (2000) Essays on Citizenship, London: Continuum. Dower, N. and Williams, J. (eds) (2002) Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Dower, N. (2003) An Introduction to Global Citizenship, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Faulks, K. (2000) Citizenship, London: Routledge. Garratt, D. and H. Piper (2008) Citizenship Education, Identity and Nationhood: Contradictions in Practice? London: Continuum. 231
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