Book
Teaching for Active Citizenship: Moral values and personal epistemology in early years classrooms
Routledge, 1
06/2016
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Teaching for Active Citizenship presents new ways to think about teaching for active citizenship in elementary school classrooms. There is strong social and political interest in active citizenship and values education internationally. Active citizenship requires children to experience and internalize moral values for human rights, developing their own opinions and moral responsibility. While investment in young children is recognised as important for the development of citizenship for a cohesive society, less is known about how early years teachers can promote this in the classroom.
The research in this book offers important insights into teaching for active citizenship. It provides analysis of educational contexts for moral values for active citizenship. It highlights teachers’ beliefs about knowing and knowledge, referred to in this text as personal epistemologies, and how these relate to children’s learning and understanding about social and moral values. And, vitally, it also discusses the impact of teachers’ beliefs on teaching practices.
Evidence suggests that investment in the early years is vital for all learning and for fostering active citizenship in society. As such, this book should be essential reading for teacher educators and pre-service teachers, particularly those interested in teaching for active citizenship. It will also appeal to academics, students and professionals from across the international education community.
There is strong social and political interest in active citizenship and values in education internationally. Active citizenship requires children to experience and internalize moral values for human rights, developing their own opinions and moral responsibility. While investment in young children is recognised as an important factor in the development of citizenship for a cohesive society, less is known about how early years teachers can encourage this in the classroom.
This book will present new directions on how teachers can promote children's learning of moral values for citizenship in classrooms. The research provided offers important insights into teaching for active citizenship by:
• providing an analysis of educational contexts for moral values for active citizenship
• highlighting teachers’ beliefs about knowing and knowledge (personal epistemologies) and how these relate to children’s learning and understanding about social and moral values
• discussing the impact of teachers’ beliefs on teaching practices.
Evidence suggests that investment in the early years is vital for all learning, and specifically for developing an understanding of active citizenship for tolerant and cohesive societies. This book will be essential reading for the professional education of early years teachers interested in teaching for active citizenship.
Details
- Title
- Teaching for Active Citizenship: Moral values and personal epistemology in early years classrooms
- Creators
- Joanne Lunn Brownlee - Queensland University of TechnologyEva Johansson - University of StavangerSusan Walker - Queensland University of TechnologyLaura Scholes - Queensland University of Technology
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Number of pages
- 150
- Identifiers
- 9781138797475; 9780815364399; 991013006397502368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book