Overview
- Explores how young people can become engaged and proactive citizens through citizenship education in England and Sweden
- Draws on the work of prominent scholars in the field including T.H. Marshall, Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen to establish a distinction between the legal and the real experiences of citizenship
- Uses the contexts of England and Sweden to give voice to the perspectives of young learners and their teachers
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy (GCED)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction to the Problem, Theory and Method
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Historical Review of Education and Citizenship Late 1800s–2010s
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Interview Findings
Keywords
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Laila Nielsen is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of Education and Communication at Jönköping University, Sweden, where she trains pre-service teachers of history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Citizen in Teaching and Education
Book Subtitle: Student Identity and Citizenship
Authors: Ralph Leighton, Laila Nielsen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38415-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38414-2Published: 02 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38417-3Published: 02 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38415-9Published: 01 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2711
Series E-ISSN: 2946-272X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 364
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Personal Development, Schools and Schooling, Citizenship