Chris G Gifford

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Citizenship in the Context of European Values: Recommendations for teaching in higher education Report of Working Group 12 of the Jean Monnet Network Project: Citizenship Education in the Context of European Values: CitEdEV

I am delighted to share our report for the Jean Monnet project on Citizenship Education in the Context of European Values. Our working group embarked on a crucial mission to dissect the implications of populism in four countries for young people, educators and to comprehend its implications for European values. With a multidisciplinary approach spa...

Moral foundations theory (MFT) explains how political and cultural attitudes are shaped significantly by people’s moral intuitions; gut-level judgments about proper human behavior and social relationships. We examine the theory through the topic of immigration attitudes. Social scientists of various stripes have built a comprehensive research progr...

This chapter explores how Eurosceptic populism has been the vehicle for the transformation of British politics in the Brexit period. Our starting point is that Brexit was the outcome of the persistence of Euroscepticism within British politics. Euroscepticism emerged as the dominant frame of the public discourse on European integration in the UK. W...

The 2016 referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU and the election of Donald Trump in the US are seen to have exposed fundamental social divisions and acute political antagonisms. While each reflected the idiosyncrasies of their domestic political scenes, these events pointed to transnational trends and developments that were shared across and b...

Drawing on newly released archival material, this article reassesses Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 Bruges speech, widely depicted to have instigated Britain's drift towards Brexit. It opens by giving an essential recap of the main contents of the speech. Next, the article explains why and how we use the address as a prism through which to see Thatcher's...

Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) argues in part that peoples' moral intuitions impact their political values and behaviors above and beyond conventional demographic predictors. We test the theory by analyzing the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Our analysis, in part, is an attempt to replicate past findings that link voters' moral intuitions to cand...

This article explores how a political economy approach can explicate recent events in the United Kingdom’s relation to the European Union. The proposition is that neither critical nor comparative approaches do justice to the extent to which British elites have sought to differentiate the UK from the EU. The UK is here understood as a Eurosceptic po...

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice: Innovation Practices and Research Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 16-18

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice: Innovation Practices and Research Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 16-18 June 2016

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A central argument of this book is that the ongoing crisis of Britishness is fundamental to understanding contemporary Euroscepticism. In this chapter, we develop this theme by turning our attention to the idea of the UK as a contested multi-national polity and its co-deterministic relationship to Euroscepticism. If, as Ben Wellings has argued in C...

Recent developments in British politics have once again brought to the fore the UK’s troubled relationship with, and within, the European Union. We have seen the extensive mobilization of Eurosceptic forces including rebellions in the Conservative Party and the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to national prominence. In 2013, David Cameron...

This article approaches Euroscepticism as central to a contemporary dynamic of government and opposition. Populist Eurosceptic mobilizations exemplify opposition to depoliticized forms of political rule and demonstrate the tight political coupling of the national and the European. In the case of the United Kingdom, a depoliticized post-imperial gov...

The experiences of young people in developed societies such as Japan and the UK have undergone considerable change in the last 30 or so years. Our starting point is that such developments are associated with the globalization of institutions and an individualization of experience, which destabilizes life-course transitions and cultural transmission...

Second edition 'Not only does this book provide us with an updated analysis of the relationship between the UK and the EU but it offers an essential contribution to the debate about British Euroscepticism. In identifying it as a structural effect of post-imperial change and "integral to the trajectory of the British political order", Gifford gives...

What has been the political impact of the Eurozone Debt Crisis in the UK? To what extent have the bank collapses and bailouts reinforced Britain's Eurosceptic trajectory? In this revised and updated second edition Chris Gifford addresses these key questions reflecting on the Labour government's approach to Europe while exploring the extensive mobil...

This article examines how the themes employed in citizenship teaching and learning are relevant to understanding the education of welfare professionals in English universities. The academic literature on citizenship education has predominantly focused upon the school curriculum and, consequently, the experiences of children and young people. Nevert...

Multiculturalism is a matter of intense debate in the UK. While it has received considerable media attention, the different uses of the term both conceptually and in policy are rarely unpacked. The wider academic literature however suggests a broad and diverse usage (Modood 2007). Firstly, it has been employed descriptively to refer to the sociolog...

This paper is concerned with the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in constituting European post-national citizenships. The central argument is that the Europeanisation of rights, and the administrative regulation of higher education that follows from this, are limited as instruments for developing post-national citizenship as they reinf...

Sovereignty is at the core of the UK's chronically contentious relationship with, and within, the European Union (EU). In order for EU membership to be an expression rather than an erosion of British sovereignty governments must influence the direction of European policy and the level of UK involvement. Labour has, it is argued, established an effe...

A formal citizenship curriculum has recently been introduced into schools in England following the publication of the Crick Report in1998. This initiative has received considerable academic and political attention as its implementation is researched and evaluated. However, citizenship education is not restricted to schools and in recent years there...

Synopsis: This monograph showcases themes relating to the diverse experiences of the modern student cohort including: single parents, international students, school leavers and those balancing education and employment.

Offering a radical interpretation of a major political issue, Chris Gifford moves beyond existing narrative and institutional accounts of Britain and Europe to present a theoretically coherent and unique perspective on this troubled relationship.

An extensive range of evidence and analysis has been employed to understand the complex relationship between Britain and the process of European integration. This article builds on a body of work within the study of European integration that examines British economic interests in European policy-making. However, I show that a comprehensive explanat...

Citizenship education is not restricted to schools and there have been a number of publicly funded initiatives to develop citizenship education in UK universities and higher education colleges. This paper contributes to the developing literature in this area with reference to evaluation research undertaken in relation to one module, 'Citizenship an...

The guide is directed at all higher education staff who have responsibilities for designing, delivering and assessing the curriculum in all academic disciplines and professions, in all countries in Europe. It should help staff develop intercultural competences in undergraduates in all disciplines. As part of the Bologna Process, to create a Europe...

The European Tuning Project identified generic competencies to be attained by graduates in Higher Education. Three of these competencies are related to citizenship and interculturality: appreciation of diversity and multiculturality; ability to work in an international context; and understanding of cultures and customs of other countries. A CiCe wo...

  Recent approaches to contemporary Euroscepticism have explained it in terms of the politics of opposition and peripherality characteristic of competitive party systems. Euroscepticism becomes a central strategy by which non-mainstream parties or factions within mainstream parties attempt to gain political advantage. In the British case, there has...

Since the Crick Report, active citizenship has been promoted as a vehicle for enhancing community involvement and political literacy among school and higher education students. This ostensibly progressive educational and social goal is beset with a number of tensions and contradictions, notably around the nature of participation and between enhanci...

Citizenship education has been an ongoing matter of academic and political debate in the UK since the 1970s. This debate culminated in the setting up of the Advisory Group in citizenship education under the chairmanship of Bernard Crick. The publication of the Crick Report, Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools (London,...

My research develops a sociological framework for exploring the structural constraints on the Europeanisation of British politics. I examine the history of Britain's relationship to the European Community/European Union (EC/EU) from the immediate post-war period up until 1994 in terms of the politics of modernisation. I discuss forms of political a...