Communication
6. Parental involvement as active citizenship
6.1. Models of citizenship and levels of participation
ACTIVITY | 1 hour | ||||||
After completing the activity… | I should be able to:
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Before start, what will I need to do this activity? | Maybe sheets of paper, pencils and a camera or a scanner | ||||||
What do I have to do? As you have seen there are multiples types of participation and you have to decide which way to participate you prefer. The level of participation is related to the model of citizenship. There are basically three models of citizenship:
There are several theories about levels of participation; one of them has been explained in the introduction of the module. Even so, there are other ones. And one of them presents a ladder of participation with eight levels see below (Arnstein, 1969). The citizen control level is when the level of participation is higher because the person really has power in the decision-making process. And for example, in the informing or the consultation level the person is only informed and maybe have a vote in a decision-making process but does not really have the power to decide on issues that concern them. So, the person has more power in decision-making processes at higher levels of the ladder.
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What to do next? | We will help each other if we share some key ideas to the forum.
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