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Author Kennedy, Kerry J., author.

Title Civic and citizenship education in volatile times : preparing students for citizenship in the 21st century / Kerry J Kennedy
Published Singapore : Springer, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series SpringerBriefs in education
SpringerBriefs in education.
Contents 1 Framing civic and citizenship education for the 21st century -- 2 What kind of future in what kind of world? -- 3 Building on civic and citizenship education's achievements -- 4 Civic and citizenship education for the future -- 5 Developing a research agenda to support CCE in the future
Summary The book highlights current issues influencing civic and citizenship education and their theoretical underpinnings. It provides an overview of the key features influencing 'democratic deconsolidation', suggests ways in which civic and citizenship education needs to be reframed in order to fit this new political environment, and demonstrates how social media will play a significant role in any future for civic and citizenship education. Currently, democratic institutions are under attack, democratic values are threatened, and there is a wide-scale retreat from the liberal consensus that has underpinned liberal democracies internationally. These trends can be seen in events like, Brexit, the election of a right-wing populist President of the United States and, anti-democratic governments in parts of Europe. It is this change in the direction of political ideology that is currently 'deconsolidating democracy' and thus challenging traditional approaches to civic and citizenship education. What is urgently needed is an understanding of these current trends and their implications for thinking in new ways about civic and citizenship education in the 21st century
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 20, 2019)
Subject Citizenship -- 21st century
Citizenship
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9811363862
9789811363870
9811363870
9789811363863