SAGE Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy

Download or read book SAGE Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Democracy written by James Arthur and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together new work by some of the leading authorities on citizenship education, and is divided into five sections. The first section deals with key ideas about citizenship education including democracy, rights, globalization and equity. Section two contains a wide range of national case studies of citizenship education including African, Asian, Australian, European and North and South American examples. The third section focuses on perspectives about citizenship education with discussions about key areas such as sustainable development, anti-racism, gender. Section four provides insights into different characterisations of citizenship education with illustrations of democratic schools, peace and conflict education, global education, human rights education etc. The final section provides a series of chapters on the pedagogy of citizenship education with discussions about curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment.