Citizenship and Education in an Age of Extremisms
This chapter aims to show the ways in which contemporary liberal democracies find themselves in an “age of extremisms,” an age defined by the increasing dominance of extreme ideas and practices across the political spectrum, including in the mainstream. N
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The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education
The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education
Andrew Peterson • Garth Stahl • Hannah Soong Editors
The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education With 27 Figures and 14 Tables
Editors Andrew Peterson Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK
Garth Stahl University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Hannah Soong University of South Australia Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia
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Preface
The terms “citizenship” and “citizenship education” remain quintessential contested concepts. While the scope of “citizenship” and of what the “citizen” comprises scope rightly been widened from limited status-based notions, critical questions remain about whether and how the concept of the citizen is understood, constructed, and practiced within and across contexts. Central to such critical questions is whether the concept of “the citizen” is of any positive value at all, fundamentally compromised as it may be by colonizing and subjugating historical and contemporary practices. Given the contestation and debate, there are new serious questions for citizenship – and by extension citizenship education – being raised by the intersections between localities and various forms of globalization, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism. This major reference work – The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education – brings together a large number o
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