Microgiving.com. Personal Internet Fundraisers. Fundraising. Citizenship as a learning process - Gerard Delanty Disciplinary citizenship versus cultural citizenship. In the dominant liberal discourse on citizenship, learning processes have tended to be reduced to citizenship classes and formal membership of the polity.
In an article first published in 2003, Gerard Delanty contrasts this type of "disciplinary citizenship" with a notion of "cultural citizenship". Delanty develops the notion of cultural citizenship in terms of learning processes at both the individual and collective levels; such processes, rather than merely demanding cognitive competence, have a developmental and transformative impact on the learning subject. Introduction In the last two decades, there has been a tremendous expansion in the discourse of citizenship. In one strand, perhaps the most well known one, communitarianism reshaped the notion of citizenship as a critique of the liberal concept of the citizen as the bearer of abstract rights.