Reimagining Civic Education

How Diverse Societies Form Democratic Citizens
Herausgeber: Levinson, Bradley; Stevick, Doyle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume surveys the new global landscape for democratic civic education. Rooted in qualitative researc, the contributors explore the many ways that notions of democracy and citizenship have been implemented in recent education policy, curriculum, and classroom practice around the world. From Indonesia to the Spokane Reservation and El Salvador to Estonia, these chapters reveal a striking diversity of approaches to political socialization in varying cultural and institutional contexts. By bringing to bear the methodological, conceptual and theoretical perspectives of qualitative research, this book adds important new voices to one of educationOs most critical debates: how to form democratic citizens in a changing world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780742547568
• ISBN-10: 0742547566
• Artikelnr.: 22421803

Autorenporträt

Doyle Stevick is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina and Founder and Chair of the Citizenship and Democratic Education group in the Comparative and International Education Society. A Fulbright Fellow to Estonia in 2003, he has given presentations in seven countries and been translated into four languages. Bradley A. U. Levinson, an anthropologist, is Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University. His research interests include student culture and identity formation, the ethnography of education policy, immigrant education, and citizenship education for democracy. His books include We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School (Duke University Press), Policy as Practice (with Margaret Sutton, Greenwood) and Rowman and Littlefield's Schooling the Symbolic Animal: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The View From the School: Students and Teachers Negotiating
Democratic Citizenship Chapter 1 Civic Education in Two Worlds:
Contestation and Conflict over the Civic in School and Community on the
Spokane Indian Reservation Part 2 Not Just for Kids: Adults as Citizens in
Learning/Challenging Democracy Chapter 2 Reformasi, Civic Education and
Indonesian Secondary School Teachers Chapter 3 Democratic Pentecost in El
Salvador? Civic Education and Professional Practice in a Private High
School Part 3 States Forming Citizens: Policy and Cultural Contestation
Chapter 4 Curricular Intervention and Greek-Cypriot Pupils' Constructions
of Citizenship: Can 'Europe' Include Immigrants? Chapter 5 Education for
Democracy: The Text and Context of Freire's Circles of Culture in Brazil
Chapter 6 Examining Peripheries of Substantive Democracy in Lithuania From
the Teachers' Point of View: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of the
Financial Reform in Education Chapter 7 Developing Citizen Leaders for
Democratic Governance in South Africa Chapter 8 Citizenship Education in
the 'New Europe': Who Belongs? Chapter 9 The Politics of the Holocaust in
Estonia: Historical Memory and Social Divisions in Estonian Education
Chapter 10 Forming and Implementing A New Secondary Civic Education Program
in Mexico: Toward a Democratic Citizen without Adjectives Chapter 11 The
Emergence of Global Citizenship Education in Japan Chapter 12 Intercultural
and Global Meanings in the Australian Secondary Curriculum: Between
Critical Contestations and Minimal Constructions