Exploring the Meaning and Educational Direction of Affective Citizenship

This study examined the meaning of affective citizenship and affective citizen, and explored the direction of affective citizenship education on the basis of this. The role of affective domain such as affect and emotion in citizenship tends to be neglected or focused on specific emotions such as positive emotions and patriotism. However, it is important how to feel about the state or community as a citizen, not just about legal rights or status in citizenship. The term “affective” is used to include affect, emotions, and feelings, and the affective plays an important role in the formation of citizenship. Understanding affective citizenship requires the aspect of civic identity through emotion, the aspect of governing through affect, and the critical, transformative aspect. In addition, affective citizen is being who acknowledges the needs and desires of other citizens, deals with public issues through relationships and cooperation, practices through emotions, becomes relational citizens entangled with all beings, and has critical reflections on what she feels. For affective citizenship education, it was suggested that citizens perceive themselves as affective citizens, feel, critically analyze, and transform various emotions related to citizenship as performative citizens.