Unit 1: Introduction to Civic Engagement

Question 1

Through what four channels can ‘active citizenship’ take place?

Answer 1

1. Individual or collective levels.
2. In public society or via formal political mechanisms.
3. Through organisations/institutions or outside orgs/institutions.
4. Through activism or direct action.

Question 2

An activity the one participates in and seeks to influence the life of the community. This is done to shape the future and improve conditions.

Answer 2

Civic engagement.

Question 3

How does Dr P Levine (Tisch College) define citizenship & a citizen?

Answer 3

Someone who asks the question: What should we do? Deliberate - Collaborate - Form civic relationships.

Question 4

Moments & spaces where citizens gather together to shape the rules that govern aspects of our lives?

Answer 4

Civil society.

Question 5

The four civic norm principles of ‘civic dialogue’?

Answer 5

1. The principal of inclusion.
   2, The principal of equality: Equal opportunity to:express interests & concerns, questions & critique, not coerce or threaten.
   3, The principal of publicity (discuss in public)
2. The principal of ‘reasonablness’. Having good reasons for our position on an issue.

Question 6

The three broad Treaty of Waitangi principles?

Answer 6

1. Partnership.
2. Protection
   3, Participation.

Question 7

Two ways of thinking about Maori citizenship?

Answer 7

1. Tangata whenua (people of the land)

2. Mana whenua (strength drawn from ancestral lands and responsibility to protect those lands).

Question 8

Civic dialogue looks different on values, worldviews and cultural preferences. This means that in part, civic dialogue is?

Answer 8

Culturally determined.

Question 9

3 international examples of civic dialogue?

Answer 9

1, Participatory budgeting.

2. Citizen assemblies
3. Consensus conferences.
4. Auckland Unitary Plan consultation (local)

Question 10

What does Beausoleil (2016) propose our response to citizenship should be?

Answer 10

More engaged citizenry,

Thinking expansively about contemporary issues and solutions and uses new forms of communication technology.

Question 11

How does Hayward (2017) see citizenship?

Answer 11

Active’ citizenship,

In which deliberative and dialogic decision making is normalised, in which collective agency and action is harnessed and in which longer term thinking and awareness prevail.
However still conventional mode of citizenship, which includes voting, paying tax, obeying the law, and observing the ‘obligations and duties’ of being a citizen.

Question 12

How does Loader et al. (2014) view modern citizenship?

Answer 12

Dutiful citizenship’

Adherence to the established norms and standards of conventional political behaviour; again, voting, following rules, and participating in conventional institutions such as political parties.

However among young people conventional ‘dutiful citizenship’ is giving way to alternative forms of citizenship in which social networks and networked communication are more important than conventional forms of civic dialogue and engagement.

Question 13

A set of activities that can be understood as an alternative to conventional forms of civic engagement?

Answer 13

Social enterprise.

Using market mechanisms to produce pro-social outcomes; this means through the commercial activities they engage in, the social benefit is produced.

By this criteria the for-profit business that gives a bit of money to charity is NOT a social enterprise, it just does a bit of charitable giving.