Citizenship Curriculum in Asia and the Pacific

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

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CERC Studies in Comparative Education

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CERC Studies in Comparative Education 22

Citizenship Curriculum in Asia and the Pacific

Edited by David L. Grossman Wing On Lee Kerry J. Kennedy

Comparative Education Research Centre The University of Hong Kong

SERIES EDITOR Mark Mason, Director, Comparative Education Research Centre The University of Hong Kong, China FOUNDING EDITOR (AND CURRENTLY ASSOCIATE EDITOR) Mark Bray, Director, International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, France ASSOCIATE EDITOR Anthony Sweeting, Comparative Education Research Centre The University of Hong Kong, China INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Robert Arnove, Indiana University, USA Beatrice Avalos, Santiago, Chile Nina Borevskaya, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, Russia Michael Crossley, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Gui Qin, Capital Normal University, China Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA Comparative Education Research Centre Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China © Comparative Education Research Centre First published 2008 ISBN 978-1-4020-8744-8

e-ISBN 978-1-4020-8745-5

Library of Congress Control Number 2008931318 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

Contents List of Tables

vii

List of Figures

vii

List of Abbreviations

ix

Series Editor’s Foreword

xi

Introduction David L. GROSSMAN

1

Conceptual Overview 1

Globalised Economies and Liberalised Curriculum: New Challenges for National Citizenship Education Kerry J. KENNEDY

13

East Asia 2

The Development of Citizenship Education Curriculum in Hong Kong after 1997: Tensions between National Identity and Global Citizenship Wing On LEE

29

3

Taiwan’s New Citizenship Curriculum: Changes and Challenges Shiowlan DOONG

43

4

Citizenship Curriculum in China: A Shifting Discourse towards Chinese Democracy, Law Education and Psychological Health Minghua ZHONG and Wing On LEE

61

5

Citizenship Education Curriculum in Japan Kazuko OTSU

75

6

7

South/Southeast Asia The Anatomy of an Islamic Model: Citizenship Education in Pakistan Iftikhar AHMAD Citizenship Discourse in the Context of Decentralisation: The Case of Indonesia Mary FEARNLEY-SANDER and Ella YULAELAWATI v

97

111

vi

Contents

8

The Building of a Nation and Ideas of Nationhood: Citizenship Education in Malaysia Ibrahim Ahmad BAJUNID

127

9

Political Pragmatism and Citizenship Training in Singapore Tai Wei TAN and Lee Chin CHEW

147

10

Pacific Rim Democracy at a Crossroads: Political Tensions Concerning Educating for Citizenship in the United States Thomas SCOTT and John J. COGAN

165

11

More Civics, Less Democracy: Competing Discourses for Citizenship Education in Australia Kerry J. KENNEDY

181

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