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Zusatztext 'Tristan McCowan challenges scholars to reconsider commonly held assumptions about citizenship education. His wide-ranging and original study should be read by anyone wishing to explore relationships between pedagogic principles, democracy and social justice.' Audrey Osler, Visiting Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education, University of Leeds, UK Informationen zum Autor Tristan McCowan is Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Vorwort A unique look at how how citizenship education is embedded within the school curriculum using a combination of philosophical enquiry and empirical research. Zusammenfassung 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 mould of predefined citizenship highly problematic. Case studies are presented of contrasting initiatives in Brazil, a country with high levels of political marginalisation, but also significant experiences of participatory democracy. These studies indicate that effective citizenship education depends on a harmonisation or ‘seamless enactment' of the stages outlined above. In contrast, provision in countries such as the UK and USA is characterised by disjunctures, showing insufficient involvement of teachers in programme design, and a lack of space for the construction of students' own political understandings. Some more promising directions for citizenship education are proposed, therefore, ones which acknowledge the significance of pedagogical relations and school democratisation, and allow students to develop as political agents in their own right. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents PART ONE: CURRENT TENSIONS IN CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 1. Mapping citizenship 2. Tensions and disjunctures in citizenship education at the start of the 21st century 3. Paulo Freire v. Bernard Crick 4. Student participation: towards a prefigurative conception PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING PROCESSES 5. A theory of curricular transposition 6. Three Brazilian experiences 7. Relating ends and means 8. Enactment at work PART THREE: RESPONSES 9. Seamless enactment 10. The uncertain journey References ...
