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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807927603321

Titolo

Schools, curriculum and civic education for building democratic citizens / / edited by Murray Print, Dirk Lange

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam ; ; Boston, : SensePublishers, c2012

ISBN

94-6209-167-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Collana

Civic and political education ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

PrintMurray

LangeDirk <1964->

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Civics - Study and teaching

Citizenship - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Murray Print and Dirk Lange -- Introduction / Murray Print and Dirk Lange -- Developing civic education in schools / Wolfgang Beutel -- A curriculum framework for active democratic citizenship education / Ahmet Doğanay -- Citizenship education in and out of school / Gonzalo Jover -- Evaluating the impact of citizenship education in schools / Avril Keating , Tom Benton and David Kerr -- Education for democratic citizenship / Jürgen Menthe -- Teacher competences for education for democratic citizenship / Kornelija Mrnjaus -- The development of civic competencies at secondary level through service-learning pedagogies / Conception Naval and Carolina Ugarte -- Teacher pedagogy and achieving citizenship competences in schools / Murray Print -- Linking teachers’ competences to students’ competences / Maria-Helena C. Salema -- Author Biographies / Murray Print and Dirk Lange.

Sommario/riassunto

How can schools and the school curriculum contribute to building democratic citizens? This is a major question posed by governments, educational systems, schools, teachers and researchers around the world. One important way is to identify the competences needed for preparing democratic citizens and incorporate these within both the formal and informal school curriculum. Another question must then be posed- what competences do young citizens need to be considered as



active and engaged in modern democracies? In 2011 an invited research symposium of leading civic and political educators, and social scientists from across Europe met in Hannover, Germany to consider this key concern facing Europe today. In examining the above questions the symposium addressed two significant issues: 1. Identify key competencies required for active citizenship of young people in Europe of the future. 2. Translate those competencies to school-based activities in the form of curricular and pedagogical strategies. The publication Civic Education and Competences for Engaging Citizens in Democracies addressed the first issue and this volume addresses the second issue. Through discussion in the invited symposium, previously prepared papers, and participation in a modified Delphi Technique the participants have prepared chapters for this book. The chapters of this book represent the contribution of the participants before, during and after the symposium with opportunities for review and reflection about competences for democratic citizenship and the role of schools and the curriculum. Murray Print and Dirk Lange are professors from the University of Sydney and Leibniz University of Hannover respectively and are national leaders in civics and citizenship education in their respective countries. They have brought together a group of leading European civic and citizenship educators from different academic fields to explore the key issue and to identify the competences for young people to become active and engaged European citizens.