Overview
- Addresses informal learning at school, an innovative topic
- Provides rich case descriptions from seven countries
- Shows the road ahead in how schools can deal with citizenship education
- Is embedded in an explicit theoretical framework
Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series (LLLB, volume 14)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Active citizenship is an objective of schooling in an increasingly complex context, in which social cohesion of the multicultural society is a cause for growing societal concern. International co-operation between European countries and a growing heterogeneity of the (school) populations of most European countries have led to an increased interest in education for citizenship. The core question dealt with pertains to the role that schools can play in developing citizenship through formal and informal learning.
Day-to-day school life is seen as a rich environment in which aspects of functioning in a democratic society and dynamic interplay with rules, leadership and peers with different backgrounds are experienced and form a source of learning. In this view the school context functions as a micro-cosmos to exercise “school citizenship” as a bridge to societal citizenship and state citizenship. The book brings together material from Cyprus, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Romania and The Netherlands.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School
Book Subtitle: An International Comparative Study in Seven European Countries
Editors: Jaap Scheerens
Series Title: Lifelong Learning Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9621-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9620-4Published: 25 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8170-4Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9621-1Published: 21 February 2009
Series ISSN: 1871-322X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5325
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 370
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education, Education, general