Changing Citizenship : Democracy and Inclusion in Education

by Osler, Audrey; Starkey, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780335211814
• ISBN10: 033521181X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

How can citizenship in schools meet the needs of learners in multicultural and globalized communities? Can schools resolve the tensions between demands for effective discipline and pressures to be more inclusive? Educators, politicians and the media are using the concept of citizenship in new contexts and giving it new meanings. Citizenship can serve to unite a diverse population, or to marginalise and exclude. With the introduction of citizenship in school curricula, there is an urgent need for developing the concept of cosmopolitan and inclusive citizenship. Changing Citizenship supports educators in understanding the links between global change and the everyday realities of teachers and learners. It explores the role that schools can play in creating a new vision of citizenship for multicultural democracies. Key reading for education researchers and students on PGCE, B.Ed and Masters courses in Education, as well as citizenship teachers and co-ordinators. Changing Citizenship is of interest to all concerned about social justice and young people's participation in decision-making.

Table of Contents

Acronyms and abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part one: Changing citizenship
1. Cosmopolitan citizenship
2. Human rights, democracy and development
3. Children as citizens

Part two: Learning for inclusion
4. The right to education
5. Learning for cosmopolitan citizenship
6. Practising citizenship
7.Mainstreaming antiracism

Part three: Democratizing schools
8. Democratic schooling
9. Rights and responsibilities
10. Changing leadership
References
Index.