Reflections on citizenship education in Australia, Canada and England.

Autor/inn/en	Davies, Ian; Issitt, John
Titel	Reflections on citizenship education in Australia, Canada and England.
Quelle	In: Comparative education, 45 (2005) 4, S. 389-410Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
Schlagwörter	Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Inhaltsanalyse; Gesellschaft; Schulbuch; Demokratie; Nationalstaat; Internationaler Vergleich; Internationalität; Heterogenität; Australien; England; Kanada; Ontario
Abstract	In this article the authors describe the background to the recent development of citizenship education in Australia, Canada and England and then, following an account of our methods, discuss issues arising from an analysis of a sample of textbooks from these countries. They suggest that the current policies to introduce versions of citizenship education have emerged in these countries in the context of diverse challenges to the legitimacy of the nation state. They argue, generally, that all three countries tend, in the textbooks they have examined, to emphasize forms of citizenship education that may submerge citizen empowerment under essentially orthodox agendas. They see differences in textbooks between and within the three countries but argue that, despite many exceptions, they are able to characterize textbooks in Ontario, Canada as education in civics (provision of information about formal public institutions), those in England as education for citizenship (a broad-based promotion of socially useful qualities) and those in Australia as social studies (societal understanding that emerges from the development of critical thinking skills related to existing academic subjects such as history and English). (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2006/3