Overview
- First comprehensive, international Handbook to explore the myriad interconnections between social justice and citizenship education
- Provides a global range of case studies to highlight the variety of citizenship and social justice education around the world
- Explores the inter-relationship between education for citizenship and social (in)justice from a diverse range of perspectives and theories
- Includes contributions from world-class, internationally renowned scholars
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Education for Citizenship and Social Justice: Key Themes and Perspectives
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Keywords
About this book
Various educational policies and practices are predicated on notions of social justice, yet each of these are explicitly or implicitly shaped by, and in turn themselves shape, particular notions of citizenship/education for citizenship. Showcasing current research and theories from a diverse range of perspectives and including chapters from internationally renowned scholars, this Handbook seeks to examine the philosophical, psychological, social, political, and cultural backgrounds, factors and contexts that are constitutive of contemporary research on education for citizenship and social justice and aims to analyse the transformative role of education regarding social justice issues. Split into two sections, the first contains chapters that
explore central issues relating to social justice and their interconnections to education for citizenship whilst the second contains chapters that explore issues of education for citizenship and social justice within the contexts of particular nations from around the world.
Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of Education, Sociology, Social Policy, Citizenship Studies and Political Science.
Reviews
“This comprehensive, timely and much-needed book provides critical discussion of ‘Citizenship and Social Justice’ through a focus on inclusivity and how complex perspectives and identities inter-relate in significant ways. The views on how citizenship can be framed, experienced and disrupted through the lens of Indigenous Peoples, refugees and other marginalised groups provide fresh insights at a critical time for the field. The diverse country case studies and explorations of connections between race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and citizenship are essential reading for those in working in education and related fields.” (Associate Professor Libby Tudball, Monash University)
“This international collaborative Handbook offers the best of contemporary thinking and writing concerning the interconnections between education for citizenship and social justice in relation to schooling and young people. The editors and contributin
g authors have done an exceptional job of capturing a wide range of themes, perspectives, and country-based examples while at the same time interrogating the intricate interplay of research, policy, and curricular practice in schooling contexts. This work is a very important addition to citizenship education literature and valuable reading for those educators committed to continuing the complex and multi-layered conversation that is characteristic of deep educational improvement.” (Mark Evans, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robert Hattam is Associate Professor in the School of Education, Associate Head of School: Research, Director of the Centre for Research in Education and Leader of the Pedagogies for Justice research group at the University of South Australia. He has been involved in numerous book projects with others including: Schooling for a Fair Go, Connecting Lives and Learning, and Pedagogies for Reconciliation. He also has published a book entitled Awakening-Struggle: Towards a Buddhist Critical Theory.
Michalinos Zembylas is Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Curric
ulum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. He is also Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, South Africa. His latest book is titled Emotion and Traumatic Conflict: Re-claiming Healing in Education.
James Arthur is Professor of Education and Civic Engagement and Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has written numerous books and articles in the areas of history teaching, educational studies, citizenship and character education, and higher education and religion. He is the former Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies and advises the English government on character education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice
Editors: Andrew Peterson, Robert Hattam, Michalinos Zembylas, James Arthur
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51507-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51506-3Published: 03 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51507-0Published: 20 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 675
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Curriculum Studies