James Arthur and Hilary Cremin - Debates in citizenship education

What are the key issues in citizenship education today?

Debates in Citizenship Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on some of the key topics, concepts and debates that they will have to address throughout their career. It places the specialist field of citizenship education in a wider context and aims to enable teachers to reach their own informed judgements and argue their points of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.

Taking account of recent policy and controversies, expert contributors provide a balance of experience and perspectives and cover a wide range of classic and contemporary topics including:

theoretical perspectives on citizenship education;

international comparative perspectives on citizenship education;

citizenship education, race and community cohesion;

climate change and sustainable citizenship education;

ICT and citizenship education;

ethics and citizenship education;

assessment of citizenship education.

Debates in Citizenship Education is for all student teachers, and practising teachers engaged in CPD or interested in furthering their understanding of teaching in the subject area. Including carefully annotated further reading and reflective questions to help shape your own research and writing, this collection provides an introduction to recent critical thinking and contemporary debates within citizenship education.

James Arthur is Head of the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK.

Hilary Cremin is Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge, UK.

The Debates in Subject Teaching Series
Edited by Susan Capel, Jon Davison, James Arthur and John Moss

The Debates in Subject Teaching Series is a sequel to the popular Issues in Subject Teaching Series, originally published by Routledge between 1999 and 2003. Each title presents high-quality material, specially commissioned to stimulate teachers engaged in initial training, continuing professional development and Masters level study to think more deeply about their practice, and link research and evidence to what they have observed in schools. By providing up-to-date comprehensive coverage the titles in the Debates in Subject Teaching Series support teachers in reaching their own informed judgements, enabling them to discuss and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.

Titles in the series:

Debates in History Teaching

Edited by Ian Davies

Debates in English Teaching

Edited by Jon Davison, Caroline Daly and John Moss

Debates in Religious Education

Edited by Philip Barnes

Debates in Citizenship Education

Edited by James Arthur and Hilary Cremin

Debates in Art and Design Education

Edited by Lesley Burgess and Nicholas Addison

Debates in Music Teaching

Edited by Chris Philpott and Gary Spruce

Debates in Physical Education

Edited by Susan Capel and Margaret Whitehead

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Debates in citizenship education / [edited by] James Arthur and Hilary Cremin.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Citizenship- -Study and teaching. I. Arthur, James, 1957- II. Cremin, Hilary

LC1091.D36 2011

372.83044- -dc23

2011017195

ISBN: 978-0-415-59765-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-59766-1 (pbk)

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Professor James Arthur, Head of the School of Education, University of Birmingham. He has written widely on the relationship between theory and practice in education, particularly the links between communitarianism, social virtues, citizenship, religion and education. He is Director of citizEd, sits on the executive of the Society for Educational Studies and is editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies.

Dr John Beck, formerly Director of Studies in Education, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. He taught mainly in the areas of Sociology of Education and Professional Studies on undergraduate and Masters courses, as well as supervising and examining doctoral students. His main research interests include: citizenship and citizenship education; social theory and social policy within the sociology of education; and work on the continuing relevance of the work of Basil Bernstein.

Dr Kathy Bickmore, Associate Professor, OISE, University of Toronto. She teaches Social Foundations of Education, Geography/Social Studies Curriculum and the Politics/Practices of Democratic Citizenship and Conflict Resolution Education. Her research focuses on field development on the politics and practice of conflict resolution, and education for equity/democracy in public school contexts.

Dr Max Biddulph, Lecturer, University of Nottingham. He is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. He has a particular interest in the field of sex and relationships education and a strong interest in activism and LGBT politics and in sexuality issues in the workplace.

Dr Hilary Cremin, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge. She researches and teaches in the areas of citizenship education and conflict resolution in schools and communities in the Faculty of Education. She chairs the Centre for Youth and Democracy, and is an editor of the British Educational Research Journal. She has worked in the public, private and voluntary sector as a school teacher, educational consultant, project coordinator and academic, and has research interests in the USA, New Zealand and Japan.

Professor Ian Davies, Professor in Education, University of York. He is the editor of the citizED and CiCea journal