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Title: Troubling the Canon of Citizenship Education

Troubling the Canon of Citizenship Education

by George H. Richardson (Volume editor) David W. Blades (Volume editor)
©2006 Textbook 145 Pages
Education

Summary

The discourse of civic education privileges liberal democratic understandings of citizenship. Yet we know that such understandings do not accurately represent the complex, plural, and problematic nature of citizenship in contemporary society. To stimulate discussion about new possibilities for teaching citizenship, this volume brings together the work of Canadian and American curriculum scholars to «trouble» the existing canon of citizenship education. Addressing themes as diverse as gender, sexual orientation, globalization, agency, ontology, and interdisciplinarity, the essays that make up this collection seek to enlarge and expand upon the ways educators, curriculum developers, and policymakers might approach teaching citizenship.

Details

Pages
145
Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820476056
Language
English
Keywords
Politische Bildung Aufsatzsammlung Citizenship education Gender Globalization Alternative perspective Multiculturalism
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. 145 pp.

Biographical notes

George H. Richardson (Volume editor) David W. Blades (Volume editor)

The Editors: George H. Richardson is Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. He holds an M.A. in history and a Ph.D. in curriculum studies (social studies education) from the University of Alberta. His research interests include national identity formation, citizenship education, multicultural education, and action research. Before his appointment to the University of Alberta, he was a classroom teacher for more than twenty years. He has taught in Canada’s northern schools and in the Ukraine. Among his numerous publications is The Death of the Good Canadian: Teachers, National Identities and the Social Studies Curriculum (Peter Lang, 2002). David W. Blades is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Teacher Education at the University of Victora. He holds a Ph.D. in secondary education (science education) from the University of Alberta and a M.Ed. in curriculum studies from the University of Victoria. He has been a director of two centers for excellence in science education. Dr. Blades has published widely on citizenship education, multiculturalism, poststructuralism, and issues in curriculum reform, including Procedures of Power & Curriculum Change (Peter Lang, 1997).

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