Rethinking Citizenship Education A curriculum for participatory democracy

by Mccowan, Tristan

• ISBN13: 9781847060587
• ISBN10: 1847060587
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-27
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Rethinking Citizenship Education presents a fundamental reassessment of the field. Drawing on empirical research, McCowan 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.

Author Biography

Dr Tristan McCowan is Lecturer in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has written widely on citizenship education, curriculum theory and comparative education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Current Tensions in Citizenship Education
Mapping Citizenship	p. 3
Tensions and Disjunctures in Citizenship Education at the Start of the Twenty-first Century	p. 17
Paulo Freire v. Bernard Crick	p. 46
Student Participation: Towards a Prefigurative Conception	p. 67
Understanding Processes
A Theory of Curricular Transposition	p. 87
Three Brazilian Experiences	p. 105
Relating Ends and Means	p. 121
Enactment at Work	p. 139
Responses
Seamless Enactment	p. 179
The Uncertain Journey	p. 190
References	p. 202
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