Democratizing politics and politicizing education: Critical pedagogy for active citizenship in the Taiwanese Sunflower Movement

Themelis, Spyros ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6681-4643 and Hsu, Tao-Chen (2021) Democratizing politics and politicizing education: Critical pedagogy for active citizenship in the Taiwanese Sunflower Movement. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 16 (2). pp. 180-194. ISSN 1746-1987

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Abstract

This article is the first to employ a Freirean framework to discuss the Taiwanese Sunflower Student Movement and its political, pedagogical and social significance. We analyse lecturers’ and students’ perspectives and experiences of civic responsibility in order to explore the relationship between critical pedagogy and student participation in the movement. The latter is an important development in politics and student activism, as it touched the lives of an entire generation of young Taiwanese and highlighted the value of active citizenship in the fight to improve democracy as praxis for social justice. This article makes a threefold contribution: first, it adds to our understanding of the processes through which movement participants cultivate their critical consciousness; second, it offers a new angle on a politically significant moment in Taiwanese history; and third, it uses this movement to illuminate forms of oppression that exist in society and education and ways to transform it.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	active citizenship,critical pedagogy,democracy,social movements,freire,praxis,citizenship,social movements,democracy,social sciences(all),education ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Research in Higher Education and Society
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2020 23:55
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 06:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76899
DOI:	10.1177/1746197920915601

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