Dr Tristan McCowan 
Rethinking Citizenship Education [PDF ebook] 
A Curriculum for Participatory Democracy

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Rethinking Citizenship Education presents a fundamental reassessment of the field. Drawing on empirical research, the book argues that attempting to transmit preconceived notions of citizenship through schools is both unviable and undesirable. The notion of ”curricular transposition” is introduced, a framework for understanding the changes undergone in the passage between the ideals of citizenship, the curricular programmes designed to achieve them, their implementation in practice and the effects on students. The ”leaps” between these different stages make the project of forming students in a mould of predefined citizenship highly problematic.


Case studies are presented of contrasting initiatives in Brazil, a country with high levels of political marginalisation, but also significant experiences of participatory democracy. These studies indicate that effective citizenship education depends on a harmonisation or ”seamless enactment” of the stages outlined above. In contrast, provision in countries such as the UK and USA is characterised by disjunctures, showing insufficient involvement of teachers in programme design, and a lack of space for the construction of students” own political understandings.


Some more promising directions for citizenship education are proposed, therefore, ones which acknowledge the significance of pedagogical relations and school democratisation, and allow students to develop as political agents in their own right.

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格式 PDF ● 网页 232 ● ISBN 9781441134325 ● 出版者 Bloomsbury Publishing ● 发布时间 2009 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2975141 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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