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The essays in this book offer various perspectives on and understandings of Chinese citizenship and education by a group of scholars of Chinese heritage situated inside and outside of China. They were originally published in various Routledge journals.
List of contents
1. Citizenship and Education: Chinese Context and Conceptualisations
Section 1: Practising Citizenship within China's State Education System 2. Rethinking Citizenship and Citizenship Education in Contemporary China: Discourses and Politics 3. Does Democracy Still Have a Chance? Contextualizing Citizenship Education in China 4. Marginal Citizens Exercising Their Individual Autonomy for Self-Identification: The Case of Migrant Students at a Vocational High School in Beijing
Section 2: Envisaging Citizenship through a Cultural Lens 5. Educating the Cosmopolitan Citizen in Confucian Classical Education in Contemporary China 6.State-Actor Interactions in Cultivating National Identity with Traditional Culture: Experiences in China's Cultural Governance 7. Religious Façade of 'the Chinese Nation' in China's School Curriculum
Section 3: Implementing Citizenship Education in Hong Kon 8.Understanding Civic Education in Hong Kong: A Bernsteinian Analysis of Teachers' Perspectives 9. Identity and Citizenship in Hong Kong: A Theoretical Reflection Using Chinese Landscape Painting 10. The Changes in Hong Kong Students' Perceptions of the 'Good Citizen': Implications for Implementing Civic Education Curriculum
Afterword Citizenship and Education in a Changing Chinese Society: Concepts, Challenges, Practices and Future Tasks
About the author
Yeow-Tong Chia is Senior Lecturer in History Education in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. He is the author of Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State: World-Soul Lost and Regained? (2015) and co-author of Teacher Preparation in Singapore: A Concise Critical History (2022).
Zhenzhou Zhao is Assistant Professor in Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the Education University of Hong Kong. She is an editor of Cogent Education and a member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Religious Education. She also serves on the editorial boards of Gender and Education and Chinese Education and Society.
Summary
The essays in this book offer various perspectives on and understandings of Chinese citizenship and education by a group of scholars of Chinese heritage situated inside and outside of China. They were originally published in various Routledge journals.
