‘The Good Citizen’: Cultural Understandings of Citizenship and Gender Amongst a New Generation of Teachers

This exploratory chapter makes tentative comparisons of how national-cultural traditions might affect teachers’ values in relation to citizenship, gender relations and the goals of education. It draws on some of the findings of a sociological research project entitled Promoting Equality Awareness: women as citizens, which investigated the knowledge and discourses of citizenship used by student teachers in Greece, Spain, Portugal, England and Wales in relation to men and women’s position in society.1