Editors:
- Expands the study of citizenship education curriculum to the world’s most dynamic region and societies
- Presents a complex picture that shows an interesting array of both similarities and differences in approaches to the citizenship education curriculum across the region
- Provides new insights into the global, national, and local dynamics that shape citizenship education across Asia and the Pacific
- Reveals critical tensions between global and national forces over the shaping of the citizenship education curriculum
Part of the book series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education (CERC, volume 22)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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East Asia
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South/Southeast Asia
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Pacific Rim
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Reflective Analysis
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Back Matter
About this book
Based on case studies of 11 societies in the world’s most dynamic region, this book signals a new direction of study at the intersection of citizenship education and the curriculum. Following their successful volume, Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific: Concepts and Issues (published as No. 14 in this series), the editors, widely regarded as leaders in the field in the Asia-Pacific region, have gone beyond broad citizenship education frameworks to examine the realities, tensions and pressures that influence the formation of the citizenship curriculum. Chapter authors from different societies have addressed two fundamental questions: (1) how is citizenship education featured in the current curriculum reform agenda in terms of both policy contexts and values; and (2) to what extent do the reforms in citizenship education reflect current debates within the society? From comparative analysis of these 11 case studies the editors have found a complex picture of curriculum reform that indicates deep tensions between global and local agendas. On one hand, there is substantial evidence of an increasingly common policy rhetoric in the debates about citizenship education. On the other, it is evident that this discourse does not necessarily extend to citizenship curriculum, which in most places continues to be constructed according to distinctive social, political and cultural contexts. Whether the focus is on Islamic values in Pakistan, an emerging discourse about Chinese ‘democracy’, a nostalgic conservatism in Australia, or a continuing nation-building project in Malaysia – the cases show that distinctive social values and ideologies construct national citizenship curricula in Asian contexts even in this increasingly globalized era.
This impressive collection of case studies of a diverse group of societies informs and enriches understanding of the complex relationship between citizenship education and the curriculum both regionally andglobally.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Citizenship Curriculum in Asia and the Pacific
Editors: David L. Grossman, Wing On Lee, Kerry J. Kennedy
Series Title: CERC Studies in Comparative Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8745-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8744-8Published: 10 September 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8745-5Published: 31 August 2008
Series ISSN: 1573-6040
Series E-ISSN: 2543-022X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 268
Additional Information: Jointly published with Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Curriculum Studies, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Social Sciences, general