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- Combines critical pedagogy and complexity theory and applies them to education for citizenship
- Engages with a broader notion of education for citizenship than school or policy documents
- Examines social and digital movement education and detailed critical research portraits demonstrating the practice of Justice Citizens
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores alternative models of civics and citizenship education. Specifically, it uses Justice Citizens, a participatory research and film-making project, as a tool to examine young people’s ideas about active citizenship and participation in public spaces. It introduces a framework that seeks to explore the diverse and apparently contradictory nature of young people’s active citizenship. The framework draws on complexity theory combined with critical pedagogy and democratic education to formulate an approach to developing active citizenship among young people. This approach extends theories of both critical pedagogy and education for citizenship, and by doing so seeks to explain the variegated nature of young people’s engagement with civil society.
This book contains a valuable repository of ideas and resources for application for teachers to use in schools and classrooms. Academics engaged in initial teacher education, at both primary and secondary levels, will find the framework of use when describing the importance and new approaches to civics and citizenship education within the current school and policy environments.
Keywords
- Justice Pedagogy framework
- civics and citizenship education in Australia
- complexity theory applications to education
- developments in critical pedagogy
- research portraiture and critical ethnography
- social and digital movement education
- developing active citizenship amongst young people
- young people's engagement with civil society
- democratic education in Australia
- sociology of citizenship
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Authors and Affiliations
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University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia
Keith Heggart
About the author
Keith has a long involvement with the trade union movement in education. He has designed learning materials for the Independent Education Union NSW/ACT as well as working in digital organizing. Keith recently completed his Ph.D. exploring justice-oriented citizenship education among Australian school students. He currently works as an academic at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, in the initial teacher education program.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Activist Citizenship Education
Book Subtitle: A Framework for Creating Justice Citizens
Authors: Keith Heggart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4694-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4693-2Published: 03 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4696-3Published: 04 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4694-9Published: 02 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 243
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Curriculum Studies, Educational Philosophy, Sociology of Citizenship