Citizenship Education around the World Local Contexts and Global Possibilities [Paperback]

Though certainly not a new idea, citizenship education manifests in unique and often unpredictable ways in our contemporary neoliberal era. The question of what it means to be a productive and recognized citizen must now be understood simultaneously along both global and local lines. This edited volume offers an international perspective on citizenship education enacted in specific socio-political contexts. Each chapter includes a pointed conceptualization of citizenship educationa philosophical frameworkthat is then applied to specific national cases across Europe, Asia, Canada and more. Chapters emphasize how such frameworks are implemented within local contexts, encouraging particular pedagogical/curricular practices even as they constrain others. Chapters conclude with suggestions for productive change and how educators might usefully engage contemporary contexts through citizenship education.

Prologue: Citizenship and the Purposes of Education John Petrovic and Aaron Kuntz1. Citizenship Education in England in an Era of Perceived Globalisation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects Ben Kisby2. Who Belongs in What Hong Kong? Citizenship Education in the Special Administrative Region Liz Jackson3. Citizenship Education in China under Discourses of Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, Neoliberalism and Confucianism Juanjuan Zhu and Steven P. Camicia4. Creating Citizens in a Capitalistic Democracy: A Struggle for the Soul of American Citizenship Education Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield5. Citizenship Education in Spain in the Twenty-First Century Miquel Mart?nez and Enric Prats6. Lost in Citizenship Education: Questions Faced by Amerasians in Japan Kanako Ide7. Citizenship Education and the Construction of Identity in Canada Dianne Gereluk and David Scott8. Civic Education in Israel: Between National-Ethnocentricity and Univl”