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Collaborative Commentary: How Should Citizenship Education Be Conceptualized?
International Perspectives on Educating for Democracy in Early Childhood, pp.102-104
Routledge, First Edition
2023
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Abstract
This commentary traces shared themes across the five chapters of Part I of this volume. While the chapters differ in the scope of their visions, all offer specific views on the aims and possibilities of democratic citizenship education in early childhood. Further, all chapters recognize that education, including early childhood education, is a fundamentally political activity, although they vary in their visions of the political ideal. A third theme is that all five chapters consider ways that early childhood classrooms can take up the challenge, essential to democracy, of disrupting established hierarchies. A final theme is a shared interest in classrooms that embrace controversy and support children's freedom for dissent, questioning, and challenging authority.
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- Title
- Collaborative Commentary: How Should Citizenship Education Be Conceptualized?
- Creators
- Stacy Lee DeZutterJoy Dangora EricksonM. Victoria GorhamProsper LubuvaPamela MalinsYannis PechtelidisLouise PhillipsJenny RitchieWinston C. Thompson
- Contributors
- Stacy Lee DeZutter (Editor)
- Publication Details
- International Perspectives on Educating for Democracy in Early Childhood, pp.102-104
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York
- Edition
- First Edition
- Identifiers
- 991013093594802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter