Synopses & Reviews
Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Changing World offers a glimpse at the landscape of citizenship and citizenship education in various parts of the world, and includes contributions from Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Israel, the US, Great Britain and the former Soviet-bloc countries Hungary and Russia.These representative parts of a fascinating and dynamic global mosaic demonstrate the great variety of political contexts in which children grow up today, and the diversity of issues which have a bearing on citizenship education. Each case study examines the implications of the paramount political, economic, technological and cultural changes that have taken place all over the globe in recent years, for citizenship as a form of affinity and collective identity, and for citizenship education.
Synopsis
Political, economic, technological and cultural changes have taken place all over the globe, changes which have transformed the meanings of citizenship and citizenship education. This volume represents an effort to analyze the implications of these changes.
Table of Contents
Patterns of citizenship in a changing world /Orit Ichilov --Russian citizenship : behavior, attitudes and prospects for a Russian democracy /Vladimir Shlapentokh --Citizenship education in Hungary : ideals and reality /Zsuzsa M§atrai --Nation-building, collective identities, democracy and citizenship education in Israel /Orit Ichilov --Contested regimes, civic dissent, and the political socialization of children and adolescents : the case of the Palestinian uprising /Andr§e Elias Mazawi --Citizenship and citizenship education in the United States in the 1990s /Richard G. Braungart and Margaret M. Braungart --Disquieting outlook for democracy : mass media, news and citizenship education in the U.S. /Mary A. Hepburn --Education for democracy in Argentina : effects of a newspaper-in-school program /Steven H. Chaffee, Roxana Morduchowicz and Hernan Galperin --Democracy minus women is not democracy : gender and world changes in citizenship /Virginia Sapiro --Apolitical patriotism and citizenship education : the case of New Zealand /Matthew S. Hirshberg --Political culture, education and democratic citizenship in Africa /Clive Harber --Patronage, domestication or empowerment? citizenship development and citizenship education in Hong Kong /Wing-Kwong Tsang --Citizenship and citizenship education in a changing world /Orit Ichilov.