Families As Educators for Global Citizenship

by Myers-Walls, Judith A.; Somlai, Peter; Rapoport, Robert N.

• ISBN13: 9781859723562
• ISBN10: 185972356X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Avebury

Summary

All people and regions of the world are deeply affected by world events, no matter how closely they embrace or how actively they try to resist their impact. This book explores some of the ways globalization has changed and formed children, youth, and families. It defines some of the ways that culture, politics, religion and world events have altered the attitudes, behaviours and well-being of families. It also outlines some of the approaches that families have taken and could take, in adapting to the changing world around them. Authors provide perspectives from over 20 countries and from many professional backgrounds, including sociology, psychology, religion, political science, peace studies, environmental studies and economics. Suggestions are given for future research studies, interventions with families and the construction of public policies.

Author Biography

Evguenia Atchildieva is currently Associated Researcher of the Institute of Sociology Russian Academy of Science and Associated Researcher of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Toronto, Canada. Yael Azmon is the founder and board member of the Feminist "Israel Women's Network" and a Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Manuela du Bois-Reymond is professor for Youth Studies and Youth Policy within the Department of Education at Leiden University. Lynne Chisholm, is a sociologist of education, work and youth and has an international career in university teaching and research from 1975 to 1995. Raquel Cohen-Orantes heads the Evaluation unit in the Communications Coordination Service of the United Nations Department of Public Information. Maria Dikaiou at the University of Thessaloniki, currently holds the position of Associate Professor in Social Psychology Wilfried Dumon is a Professor at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. Constance A. Flanagan is an Associate Professor of youth civic development in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University. Jacqueline Haessly is founder and president of Peacemaking Associates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo and Chairman of the Board of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies. Dai Keijing is a professor at the Institute of Sociology in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. Hsiang-Ming Justine Kung is an Associate professor in the Department of Social Psychology at Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. Zuzana Kusa earned a PhD in sociology from the Slovak Academy of Sciences where she is now Senior Research Fellow. Willy LaHaye is a philosopher and a post-graduate in psychopedagogy. He is an assistant at the University of Brussels and at the University of Mons-Hainaut in Belgium. Natalja Lakiza-Sachuk, PhD, is a Principal Consultant, Project Director on Socio-Demographic Strategy of the National Institute for Strategic Studies at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC). Hamilton McCubbin has been Dean and Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Andjelka Milic is a professor of family sociology and women's studies at Belgrade University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology. Judith A. Myers-Walls is on the faculty of the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University in Indiana. Margaret Obondo is a language and education researcher at Rinkeby Institute of Multilingual Research, an institute affiliated with the Center for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University (Sweden). Jens Qvortrup, PhD from University of Copenhagen, is a professor of sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and director of Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Trondheim. Robert N. Rapoport studied social anthropology at Chicago and Harvard where he obtained his doctorate in social relations in 1951. In 1965, he cofounded the Institute of Family and Environmental Research with his wife, Rhona. Despina Sakka is a Lecturer in Social Psychology in the Department of Primary Education, Democritus University of Thrace. Peter Skalnik is a member of the professorial staff of the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University. Peter Somlai is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of History of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology in Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. Furugh Switzer, has taught at the University of Vezprem and currently at the Teacher Training College in Jaszbereny. Ousmane Thioune is an environmental researcher and educator. Olga Toth is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Riitta Wahlstrom is a research fellow at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. Hideki Watanabe is professor of sociology at Keio University in Tokyo. Chin-Chun Yi is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and is teaching a graduate seminar at the Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	xvi
Robert N. Rapoport
Dedication and tribute	xxxvi
Part One: Families as Educators for Global Citizenship	1	(52)
How families teach their children about the world	3	(10)
Judith A. Myers-Walls
Global citizenship: An essay on its contradictions	13	(10)
Peter Somlai
Families and globalization: A new social contract and agenda for research	23	(18)
Constance A. Flanagan
Families as educators for global citizenship: Additional contributions and reflections	41	(12)
Jens Qvontrup
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Wilfried Dumon
Lynne Chisholm
Constance A. Flanagan
Robert N. Rapoport
Part Two: Families, Modernization, and Globalization	53	(76)
Negotiation strategies in modern families: What does it mean for global citizenship?	55	(14)
Manuela du Bois-Reymond
The impact of modernization on elder-care: The case of Taiwan	69	(12)
Hsiang-Ming Justine Kung
Chin-Chun Yi
Transformations of family norms: Parents expectations of their children's family life style	81	(10)
Hideki Watanabe
Task sharing and sex role attitudes in Greek returnees: A combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal data	91	(16)
Despina Sakka
Maria Dikaiou
Globalization, community violence and family: An anthropologist's account from Northern Ghana	107	(6)
Peter Skalnik
Reflections from a war zone: A partial essay and memorial tribute	113	(4)
Andjelka Milic
Families, modernization, and globalization: Additional contributions and reflections	117	(12)
Peter Skalnik
Zuzana Kusa
Natalia Lakiza-Sachuk
Evguenia Atchildieva
Judith A. Myers-Walls
Yael Azmon
Jens Qvortrup
Raquel Cohen-Orantes
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Part Three: Families as Educators	129	(74)
Hungarian adolescents attitudes toward their future, peace, and the environment	131	(8)
Olga Toth
The tradition and change of family education in mainland China	139	(20)
Dai Keijing
Judith A. Myers-Walls
Families as environmental educators in the Sahel	159	(6)
Ousmane Thioune
Judith A. Myers-Walls
War, mothers, and a girl with braids: Involvement of mothers' peace groups in the national discourse in Israel	165	(12)
Yael Azmon
Religion, spirituality, and the family: Challenges for global citizenship	177	(14)
Jacqueline Haessly
Judith A. Myers-Walls
The parents' role in educating about war and peace	191	(12)
Judith A. Myers-Walls
Families as educators: Additional contributions and reflections	203
Willy LaHaye
Furugh Switzer
Margaret Obondo
Raquel Cohen-Orantes
Hamilton McCubbin
Riitta Wahlstrom