SAGE Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy

James Arthur, Ian Davies, Carole Hahn

SAGE, Jul 1, 2008 - Education - 592 pages

This handbook brings together new work by some of the leading authorities on citizenship education, and is divided into five sections. The first section deals with key ideas about citizenship education including democracy, rights, globalization and equity. Section two contains a wide range of national case studies of citizenship education including African, Asian, Australian, European and North and South American examples. The third section focuses on perspectives about citizenship education with discussions about key areas such as sustainable development, anti-racism, gender. Section four provides insights into different characterisations of citizenship education with illustrations of democratic schools, peace and conflict education, global education, human rights education etc. The final section provides a series of chapters on the pedagogy of citizenship education with discussions about curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• SECTION 1 Key Ideas Underlying Citizenship Education: 11
• 1 Democracy: 13
• 2 Rights Duties and Responsibilities: 20
• 3 Civic Education Social Justice and Critical Race Theory: 29
• 4 Philosophical Presuppositions of Citizenship Education and Political Liberalism: 40
• 5 Diversity and Citizenship Education in Global Times: 57
• 6 Equity and its Relationship to Citizenship Education: 71
• 7 Globalization: 80
• SECTION 2 Geographically Based Overviews Comparative Research: 93
• 8 Education for Democratic Citizenship in Australia: 95
• Exceptional Cases of Citizenship Education in Brazil: 109
• The Centre Cannot Hold: 124
• Changing Concepts Approaches and Policies in the Changing Political Economic and Social Context: 139
• The Case of the Czech Republic: 158
• From Colonial Subjugation to Radical Possibilities: 175
• A contested Terrain: 189
• 15 Citizenship Education in Japan: 205
• Prospects for Global Citizenship: 215
• 17 The Changing Face of Citizenship Education in Pakistan: 227
• Citizenship Education in Palestine: 239
• 19 Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom: 252
• 20 Education for Citizenship and Democracy in the United States: 263
• SECTION 3 Key Perspectives: 279
• Overview: 281
• Civic Virtues and Education about Muslim Traditions: 292
• 23 Christianity Citizenship and Democracy: 305
• 24 Feminism and Gender in Education for Citizenship and Democracy: 314
• 25 Antiracism: 329
• 26 Sustainable Development: 342
• 27 History: 355
• 28 Literacy: 367
• SECTION 4 Characterizations and Forms: 375
• 29 Political Literacy: 377
• 30 Community Involvement Civic Engagement and Service Learning: 388
• 31 Educating for Civic Character: 399
• Towards a Definition: 410
• 33 Multicultural Citizenship Education: 424
• 34 Peace and Conflict Education: 438
• The Foundation of Education for Democratic Citizenship in our Global Age: 455
• 36 Global Education: 468
• SECTION 5 Pedagogy: 481
• Ideology Content and Organization: 483
• 38 Organizing a Curriculum for Active Citizenship Education: 492
• 39 Discussion of Controversial Issues as a Form and Goal of Democratic Education: 506
• 40 Citizenship Education Pedagogy and School Contexts: 519
• Making Community Curricular: 533
• 42 Assessing Citizenship Education: 545
• Index: 559

About the author

Professor James Arthur, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Education and Civic Engagement, University of Birmingham. He is Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, an inter-disciplinary research centre focussing on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing. He has written widely on the relationship between theory and practice in education, particularly the links between communitarianism, social virtues, citizenship, religion and education. He is Secretary to the Society for Educational Studies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: SAGE Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy
• Editors: James Arthur, Ian Davies, Carole Hahn
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: SAGE, 2008
• ISBN: 1446206777, 9781446206775
• Length: 592 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Education / Teaching / General