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Rethinking Citizenship Education

A Curriculum for Participatory Democracy

By: Tristan McCowan

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Rethinking Citizenship Education

A Curriculum for Participatory Democracy

By: Tristan McCowan

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.

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A Curriculum for Participatory Democracy

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A Curriculum for Participatory Democracy

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Education as a Human Right

Principles for a Universal Entitlement to Learning

By: Tristan McCowan

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Education as a Human Right

Principles for a Universal Entitlement to Learning

By: Tristan McCowan

Education is widely recognized as a fundamental human right, yet the nature of the right remains unclear. Is it an entitlement to go to school, to acquire particular forms of knowledge or develop particular skills or attributes? And why exactly is education so important that we might defend all people's right to it? This book provides a much-needed exploration of this key contemporary issue. Highlighting limitations in the approaches of both the Education for All initiative and existing international law, the book presents a radical new vision of how the right can be understood. As well as basic education, there are discussions of higher and lifelong education, of human rights education, and of the intersection of rights-based approaches with others such Amartya Sen's 'capabilities'. The work serves as a stirring defense of the universal right to education against instrumental conceptions of learning, the inactivity of national governments and the abrogation of responsibility of the international community.

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1441150595

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Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

By: Tristan McCowan

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Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

By: Tristan McCowan

This book analyses the role of the university in working towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In contrast to the previous Millennium Development Goals, higher education is seen to have a crucial role in this new agenda. Yet how can the university fulfil these weighty expectations, and are the dominant trends in higher education supporting or undermining this vision? This book draws on the idea of the ‘developmental university’, a model characterised by its porous boundaries with society and commitment to teaching, research and community engagement in the public interest. The author examines case studies from Latin America, Africa and other regions to analyse how this model can be revived, countering recent trends of marketisation, status competition and unbundling. The book also considers alternatives to the developmental model drawing on indigenous knowledge systems, looking beyond the SDG framework to the creation of a new form of society. This timely volume will be of interest and value to those working in the field of sustainable development, and to students and scholars of comparative education, international development and higher education studies.

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Springer Nature

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303019597X

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Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries

By: Tristan McCowan,Sonia Gomez

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Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries

By: Tristan McCowan,Sonia Gomez

Assesses the role that citizenship education can play in developing respect and understanding. It outlines the concept of citizenship, its multiple orientations and the complexities of promoting political visions through education.

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Education as a Human Right

Principles for a Universal Entitlement to Learning

By: Tristan McCowan

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Education as a Human Right

Principles for a Universal Entitlement to Learning

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A comprehensive reassessment of the idea that all humans are entitled to learning, examining existing conceptualisations and proposing a new basis for Education for All.

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Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

By: Tristan McCowan

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Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries

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Book's by Tristan McCowan

Rethinking Citizenship Education

Rethinking Citizenship Education

Rethinking Citizenship Education

Rethinking Citizenship Education

Education as a Human Right

Education as a Human Right

Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries

Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries

Education as a Human Right

Education as a Human Right

Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

Higher Education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries

Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries

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