Democracy at the Crossroads International Perspectives on Critical Global Citizenship Education

by White, Cameron; Openshaw, Roger; Barr, Hugh; Basile, Carole; Bishop, Joe; Codd, John; Crawford, Keith; Gibson, Susan; Hooghoff, Hans; Inokuchi, Hiromitsu; Landrum, David; Lawson, Helen; McKay, Roberta; Mutch, Carol; Nozaki, Yoshiko; Prior, Warren; Scott,

• ISBN13: 9780739109076
• ISBN10: 0739109073
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-04
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In Democracy at the Crossroads, the editors argue that there have been too few scholarly attempts to provide a comprehensive critique of the assumptions behind citizenship education. In particular, they ask the distinguished contributors to this volume to address difficult but essential questions that are often avoided or intentionally overlooked: What do all-embracing terms like 'global citizenship' really mean? What does democracy mean internationally? A timely work, Democracy at the Crossroad provides a necessary examination and re-interpretation of international perspectives on democracy and global citizenship as they apply to social education.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I. Tensions
Democracy at the Crossroads?	3	(10)
Roger Openshaw
Cameron White
Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Education for Citizenship in New Zealand	13	(18)
John Codd
Freedom or French Fries: Packaged Democracy for World Consumption	31	(24)
Tony L. Talbert
Toward a Model of Citizenship Education: Coping with Differences in Definition	55	(22)
Hugh Barr
Critical Democratic Education for Social Efficacy	77	(28)
Cameron White
Entwined Ideals: Connecting Democracy to Peace	105	(20)
Julie Weber
Part II. Unpacking Approaches
Developing a Global Dimension in Dutch Education	125	(20)
Hans Hooghoff
The Social Construction of a Curriculum for Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom	145	(22)
Keith Crawford
David Landrum
Reexamining Competing Views of Citizenship Education and Their Influence on Social Studies	167	(20)
Susan Gibson
Roberta McKay
Developing Global Citizens: The Rhetoric and the Reality in the New Zealand Curriculum	187	(24)
Carol Mutch
Citizenship Education and the Crick Report in England and Wales	211	(22)
David Scott
Helen Lawson
Part III. National Exemplars
Suffering from Enthusiasts? Some Relevant National Case Studies for Global Citizenship Advocates	233	(22)
Roger Openshaw
Perceptions of Citizenship in Australia	255	(36)
Warren Prior
Whose Civics, Whose Citizen: Reconceptualizing U.S. Democracy in the Postindustrial Era	291	(20)
Trenia Walker
Locating Democracy: Meanings and Intersections in the Czech Republic	311	(20)
Joe Bishop
Part IV. School-Based Studies
Dealing with Discourses: U.S. Teaching about the Pacific War and Shifting Locations of ``American'' Identities	331	(16)
Yoshiko Nozaki
Hiromitsu Inokuchi
Jefferson County Open School: Voices of Global Citizenship	347	(18)
Carole Basile
Selected Bibliography	365	(4)
Index	369