Producing citizenship as shared meaning

Abstract

This article discusses the Creative Chain (Liberali, 2006a for citizenship education in the “Citizenship Action Project: Reading in Different Areas”(PAC-LDA). It approaches the concepts of sense, meaning, and answerability-responsibility (Bakhtin, 1992) as the basis for citizenship production. The analysis of data collected in the 2006 activities of the project suggests that shared meanings contribute to the view of citizenship in the Creative Chain of Activities as a desirable attitude (Kymlicka & Norman, 1997).

Keywords

• sense and meaning
• answerability-responsibility
• citizenship
• Creative Chain