Education for intercultural citizenship : concepts and comparisons

Education for intercultural citizenship : concepts and comparisons / edited by Geof Alred, Mike Byram and Mike Fleming.

This book examines citizenship education from the perspective of interculturality in order to extend its meaning and significance within and beyond the nation state, and in education in the nation state. There are chapters which deal with theory and concepts and others which present country and inte...

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Other Authors: Alred, Geof, Byram, Michael, Fleming, Michael (Michael P.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Multilingual Matters, ©2006.
Series:Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 13.
Subjects:
Citizenship > Study and teaching > Cross-cultural studies.
Multicultural education > Cross-cultural studies.
Cultural studies.
Multicultural education.
EDUCATION > Aims & Objectives.
Citizenship > Study and teaching
Multicultural education
Intercultureel onderwijs.
Burgerschap.
Cross-cultural studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Interculturality, identity and citizenship education in Mexico / Phyllis Ryan
  • National identity at a crossroads: the struggle between culture, language and politics in Hong Kong / Wing Leung and W.O. Lee
  • The construction of citizenship and nation building: the Singapore case / Stewart Martin and Anwei Feng
  • Concepts and issues in citizenship education: a comparative study of Germany, Britain and the USA / Gerhard Himmelmann
  • Contested notions of citizenship and citizenship education: the Chinese case / Anwei Feng
  • Developing a concept of intercultural citizenship / Michael Byram
  • The concept of "intercultural citizenship": lessons from fiction and art / Mike Fleming
  • Beyond the nation's potential for intercultural citizenship education in Japan
  • Lynne Parmenter
  • Towards an intercultural frame of mind citizenship in Poland / Maria Walat
  • Citizenship education in Spain: aspects of secondary education / María del Carmen Méndez García
  • The intercultural dimension of citizenship education in Portugal / Manuela Guilherme [and others].

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