<p><strong>'Lambert and Machon's [book] is a timely and considered contribution ... the book provides chapters setting the background to citizenship in geography education from a stimulating range of different viewpoints ... [it] is an essential read for those at the intersection of citizenship and geography in secondary schools.'</strong> - <em>Angus Willson, The Development Education Journal</em><br /><br /><strong>'Though this book has been prompted by developments in the English National Curriculum, its import goes far beyond the narrow confines of British educational policy. The questions it poses and the issues it raises are of universal significance and merit being read by all teachers of geography and social studies ... This is a thought provoking book with at the same time plenty of pointers for classroom action.'</strong> - <em>International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education</em></p>

<p><strong>'Lambert and Machon's [book] is a timely and considered contribution...the book provides chapters setting the background to citizenship in geography education from a stimulating range of different viewpoints...[it] is an essential read for those at the intersection of citizenship and geography in secondary schools.'</strong> - <em>Angus Willson, The Development Education Journal</em></p>

This book reveals the potential of geography to engage with citizenship. It provides:theoretical signposts in the form of short, digestible explanations for key ideas such as racism, values, identity, community and social exclusiona number of inset activities 'for further thinking'a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through geographypractical teaching suggestions.All the contributions to this valuable book point to the capacity of geography to engage with citizenship, values, education and people - environment decision-making, on scales that range from the local to the global. It offers positive and direct ways to become involved in the thinking that must underpin any worthwhile citizenship education, for all experienced teachers, student teachers, heads of department, curriculum managers, principals and policy-makers.
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This book defines the contribution that geography makes to citizenship and democracy education, and which indeed it must make if citizenship education is to be effective in a crowded curriculum.
1.Introduction Section 1: Contexts 2.Citizenship Education: Permeation or Pervasion? Some Historical Pointers 3.Citizenship and Geography Education: An International Perspective 4.Values and Values Education in the Geography Curriculum in Relation to Concepts of Citizenship 5.Finding its Place: Contextualising Citizenship Within the Geography Curriculum Section 2: Curriculum Issues 6.To Which Space do I Belong? The Seduction of Community 7.'Where shall I draw the line, Miss?' The Geography of Exclusion 8.A Very British Subject: Questions of Identity 9.Citizenship Denied: the Case of the Holocaust 10.Towards Ecological Citizenship 11.Global Citizenship: Choices and Change 12.Citizenship in Geography Classrooms: Questions of Pedagogy Section 3: Conclusion 13.Conclusion: Citizens in a Risky World
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'Lambert and Machon's [book] is a timely and considered contribution ... the book provides chapters setting the background to citizenship in geography education from a stimulating range of different viewpoints ... [it] is an essential read for those at the intersection of citizenship and geography in secondary schools.' - Angus Willson, The Development Education Journal'Though this book has been prompted by developments in the English National Curriculum, its import goes far beyond the narrow confines of British educational policy. The questions it poses and the issues it raises are of universal significance and merit being read by all teachers of geography and social studies ... This is a thought provoking book with at the same time plenty of pointers for classroom action.' - International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
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ISBN
9780415231602
Publisert
2001-08-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
450 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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