Debates in Citizenship Education

Herausgeber: Arthur, James; Cremin, Hilary

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Produktbeschreibung

Debates in Citizenship Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on key topics, concepts and debates that they will have to address throughout their career. It places the specialist field of citizenship education in the wider context and aims to enable teachers to reach their own informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415597661
• ISBN-10: 0415597668
• Artikelnr.: 30368453

Autorenporträt

James Arthur is Head of the School of Education, University of Birmingham. 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 Director of CitizEd, sits on the executive of the Society for Educational Studies and is editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies. Hilary Cremin is Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge. She researches and teaches in the areas of citizenship education and conflict resolution in schools and communities in the faculty of Education. She chairs the Centre for Youth and Democracy, and is an editor of the British Educational Research Journal. She has worked in the public, private and voluntary sector as a school teacher, educational consultant, project coordinator and academic, and has research interests in the USA, New Zealand and Japan. The Debates in Subject Teaching Series Edited by Susan Capel, Jon Davison, James Arthur and John Moss

Inhaltsangabe

Author Biographies Editors' introduction 1. A Brief History Of Citizenship
Education In England And Wales 2. International Comparative Perspectives on
Citizenship Education 3. Theoretical Perspectives of Citizenship Education
4. Policy Context of Citizenship Education 5. Schools and their Communities
6. Citizenship Education, Race and Community Cohesion 7. The Civic
Engagement of Young People From Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Communites
8. Citizenship, Inclusion, Gender and Young People 9. Sexualities and
Citizenship Education 10. Peacebuilding Dialogue as Democratic Education
11. Climate Change and Sustainable Citizenship Education 12. Assessment of
Citizenship Education: Challenges and Opportunities 13. Governing
Citizenship Education 14. ICT and Citizenship Education 15. Values, Ethics
and Citizenship Education Conclusion 16. Where Now for Citizenship
Education? 17. Young people mobilizing the language of citizenship:
struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world