Rethinking citizenship education: a curriculum for participatory democracy
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Main Author: McCowan, Tristan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Continuum ©2009
Series:Continuum studies in educational research
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Current tensions in citizenship education. Mapping citizenship ; Tensions and disjunctures in citizenship education at the start of the twenty-first century ; Paulo Freire v. Bernard Crick ; Student participation: towards a prefigurative conception -- Understanding processes. A theory of curricular transposition ; Three Brazilian experiences ; Relating ends and means ; Enactment at work -- Responses. Seamless enactment ; The uncertain journey
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-218)
Rethinking Citizenship Education presents a fundamental reassessment of the field. Drawing on empirical research, the book 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
ISBN:1847060587
9781847060587
9781441134325
1441134328
1282296981
9781282296985

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