Citizenship The civic ideal in world history, politics and education

by Heater, Derek

• ISBN13: 9780719068416
• ISBN10: 071906841X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Citizenshipdescribes, analyzes and interprets the topic of citizenship in a global context as it has developed historically, in its variations as a political concept and status, and the ways in which citizens have been and are being educated for that status. The book provides a historical survey which ranges from the Ancient Greeks to the twentieth century, and reveals the legacies which each era passed on to later centuries. It explains the meaning of citizenship, what political citizenship entails and the nature of citizenship as a status, and also tackles the issue of whether there can be a generally accepted, holistic understanding of the idea. For this new edition an epilogue has been written which demonstrates the intense nature of the academic and pedagogical debates on the subject as well as the practical matters relating to the status since 1990.

Author Biography

Derek Heater was Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural studies at the then Brighton Polytechnic, and was co-founder of the Politics Association.

Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition	vii
Preface to the second edition	ix
Preface to the third edition	x
Foreword	xi
Professor Sir Bernard Crick
Part One HISTORY
The origins	3	(35)
Polis and cosmopolis	3	(14)
From Rome to Renaissance	17	(12)
The threshold of modern citizenship	29	(9)
Consolidation of the modern state	38	(57)
The age of revolution	38	(16)
The triumph of nationalism	54	(9)
Nineteenth-century Liberalism and Socialism	63	(14)
The impact of political doctrines on education	77	(18)
The twentieth century	95	(69)
States with a liberal tradition	95	(20)
Totalitarianism	115	(14)
New nations	129	(12)
World citizenship	141	(23)
Historical legacies	164	(23)
The origins	164	(6)
Consolidation of the modern state	170	(7)
The twentieth century	177	(3)
The perspective of history	180	(7)
Part Two ANALYSIS
The feeling of citizenship	187	(29)
Citizenship as identity	187	(11)
The good citizen	198	(18)
The political citizen	216	(35)
The political citizen of the state	216	(18)
The political citizen of the world	234	(17)
The status of citizenship	251	(36)
Civil and legal definitions	251	(19)
Social citizenship	270	(17)
Barriers to a holistic concept	287	(34)
General difficulties	287	(11)
The debate in Britain	298	(23)
Part Three SYNTHESIS
Multiple citizenship	321	(34)
The cube of citizenship	321	(6)
The geographical dimension	327	(10)
The five elements	337	(6)
Education	343	(7)
Conclusion	350	(5)
Epilogue	355	(17)
Select bibliography	372	(8)
Index	380