Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 109 |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 109.
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Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Origins; 1. Why Global Citizenship?; Globalization on Main Street; The Rise of Global Citizenship Education; The Institutional Ecology of Global Citizenship Education; Global Citizenship as Moral Education; Why Global Citizenship?; 2. Educating Citizens: The Long View; Education and the National Imaginary; Education and the Global Imaginary; Ancient (and Modern) Sources of Global Citizenship Education |
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Empirical Research on Education and World SocietyPart II: Features; 3. Global Citizenship as Global Consciousness; Perspective Consciousness; Wither the Nation?; The Global Community for Humanity as a Whole; A Global Consciousness with a Moral Conscience; 4. Global Citizenship as Global Competencies; Global Competencies and Twenty-First-Century Skills; Twenty-First-Century Project-Based Learning; Global Competencies and Educational Technology; Consciousness, Competencies, and Human Flourishing; Part III: Problems; 5. The Problem of Conformity; Historical Antecedents |
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The Competencies of the Global Citizen-WorkerConforming Students for "Creative" Capitalism; The Global Citizen as Modern (Enterprising) Self; 6. The Problem of Particularity; Excursus: A Case Study of Organized Difference in the United States; Global Consciousness and the Organization of Diversity; Conclusion; 7. Liberal Individualism and the Limits of Global Citizenship Education; The Individualism of Global Liberalism; A Global (Post)durkheimian Moral Order?; The Particularity and Persistence of Collective Identities; Part IV: Possibilities |
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8. Alternative Possibilities, Alternative RealitiesAlternative Possibilities in Religious Schools; Alternative Possibilities in U.s. Public Schools; Conclusion; Appendix A: Data and Method; Appendix B: Education as Formation-Theoretical Framework; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it captures the longings of so many-to help make a world of prosperity, universal benevolence, and human rights in the midst of globalization's varied processes of change. This book offers an empirical account from the perspective of teachers and classrooms, based on a qualitative study of ten secondary sc |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Globalization -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Citizenship -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Cosmopolitanism -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Citizenship -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2013002639 |
ISBN |
9781136690242 |
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1136690247 |
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0203374665 |
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9780203374665 |
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9781136690389 |
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1136690387 |
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9781136690310 |
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113669031X |
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9781138952263 |
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1138952265 |
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