Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen: Dilemmas and Directions for Civics and Citizenship Education: 34 (Routledge Research in Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415872235 ISBN 13: 9780415872232

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in civics and citizenship education. There have been unprecedented developments in citizenship education taking place in schools, adult education centers, or in the less formally structured spaces of media images and commentary around the world. This book provides an overview of the development of civics and citizenship education policy across a range of nation states. The contributors, all widely respected scholars in the field of civics and citizenship education, provide a thorough understanding of the different ways in which citizenship has been taken up by educators, governments and the wider public. Citizenship is never a single given, unproblematic concept, but rather its meanings have to be worked through and developed in terms of the particularities of socio-political location and history. This volume promotes a wider and more grounded understanding of the ways in which citizenship education is enacted across different nation states in order to develop education for active and participatory citizenry in both local and global contexts.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Reid is Professor of Education in the School of Education, University of South Australia.

Judith Gill is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education, University of South Australia.

Alan Sears is a Professor of Social Studies Education and a member of the Citizenship Education Research and Development Group at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415872235
• ISBN 13: 9780415872232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Reid Alan, Gill Judith, Sears Alan