Citizenship education in context: student teacher perceptions of citizenship in Cyprus (original) (raw)

Ambiguities of Citizenship. Reframing the Notion of Citizenship Education

Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica – Journal of Theories and Research in Education, 2013

Complex transformations worldwide encompassed by the definition of 'globalisation' push us to rethink the concept of citizenship and its traditional definitions. The article aims to theoretically analyse the rich debate about citizenship from a socio-political point of view and tries to investigate the educational dimension related tod different concepts of citizenship. After having introduced three models for citizenship education (republican, liberal, and moral) and having explored their shortcomings, the authors shall propose a possible overtaking that is rooted on another way to understand the relationship among education and politics.

Teaching Citizenship: International perspectives on citizenship education

Collection of papers published by the Association for Citizenship Teaching: edited by Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey. Spring 2013 Volume 35 Editorial: International perspectives on Citizenship Teaching: A. Osler & H. Starkey Human rights education in Kurdistan-Iraq: can it promote gender equity: Chalank Yahya Investigating education for democratic citizenship in Norway: Tingting Yang Challenging racism? Oslo Holocaust Centre: Momodou Olly Mboge An Icelandic saga: investigating students' perspectives on education for democratic citizenship: Susan Gollifer & Þórdís Eyvör Valdimarsdóttir Can a London school be human rights friendly? Sam Mejias Children's understanding of citizenship in Greece: Ioanna Noula

The Role of Citizenship in Schools (2005)

This article argues that citizenship education already plays, and, indeed, should play an important role in schools. Not only does citizenship education deliver specific aims of education, which warrant its inclusion in the curriculum of any school, it also owes its existence to a moral obligation of states to educate citizens for effective participation in civic life. However, the particular type of citizen, which states wish to create will in large part be determined by the approach taken to teaching citizenship education. As a result of this, the role of citizenship education will differ considerably depending on which model is adopted. The article explores three roles for citizenship education in schools in detail. It then seeks to propose a transformative role for citizenship education in schools in order to create citizens who are equipped with the necessary knowledge, understandings and dispositions to make a fundamental difference in their societies. This article was formerly published by Citized.

Citizenship Education for a New Age

1994

This position paper examines the changing focus of citizenship education in Australia over the past 40 years. Citizenship education has not achieved as high a profile in Australia as in the United States and this situation has become a growing concern for many educators and community leaders. An examination is made on how questioning traditional values and changing the international scene have impacted the way Australians and Australian governments have come to see themselves. The changing nature of Australian society in recent years through a series of events, processes, and initiatives is recognized. A call for consensus is made in order to develop a citizenship education program for the Australian students to function in the new era of change. The paper includes the following divisions: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Conflicting Images of Citizenship Education in Australia"; (3) "Issues for Ciitizenship and the School Curriculum"; (4) "Levels of Student Underitanding"; (5) "Student Attitudes"; (6) "Opportunity to Learn"; (7) "Teacher Attitudes"; (8) "Student Participation"; (9) "National Curriculum"; (10 "Curriculum Options"; and (11) "Conclusions." In summary, the level of student understanding of political concepts and processes is an important component of being an effective citizen. The development of citizen education involves not only a reconceptualization of citizenship education, but also a rethinking of how citizenship education might best become a major component of the school curriculum. Contains 28 references. (EH)

Citizenship Education in the European Curricula

Recent comparative studies made in different European countries, emphasize the inclusion of citizenship in the curriculum as a specific topic, using different approaches and learning methods. According to Eurydice (2005), this topic can be offered as an independent subject that can be mandatory or optional, or integrated in one or more subjects. It also includes the ability to teach the contents in a cross-curricular way, so that the citizenship education’s principles appear in every area of the curriculum. Likewise, the citizenship education’s objectives are formulated in a different way in each country, according to the national context, traditions, cultural heritage and above all, depending of the curricular approach. In this paper we analyze different European curricula, to know how they work with the citizenship education, and we establish reference frameworks that can be useful to be included in a curricular level.