Local Citizenship in the Global Arena proposes a reconsideration of
both citizenship and citizenship education, moving away equally
from prevailing 'global citizenship' and 'fundamental British
values' approaches towards a curriculum for education that is
essentially about creating cosmopolitan, included and inclusive,
politically-engaged citizens of communities local, national and
global. Viewing education as both problem and solution, Findlow
argues that today's climate of rapid and unpredictable geopolitical
and cultural re-scoping requires an approach to citizenship
education that both reflects and shapes society, paying attention
to relationships between the local and global aspects of political
voice, equality and community. Drawing on a range of international
examples, she explores the importance and possibilities of a form
of education that instead of promoting divisive competition,
educates about citizenship in its various forms, and encourages the
sorts of open and radical thinking that can help young people cross
ideological and physical borders and use their voice in line with
their own, and others', real, long-term interests. Successive
chapters develop this argument by critically examining the key
elements of citizenship discourses through the interrelated lenses
of geopolitical change, nationalism, the competition fetish,
critical pedagogy, multiculturalism, protest politics, feminism and
ecology, and highlighting ways in which the situationally diverse
lived realities of 'citizenship' have been mediated by different
forms of education. The book draws attention to how we think of
education's place in a world of combined globalisation, localism,
anti-state revolt and xenophobia. It will be of key interest to
academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of
education, political science, philosophy, sociology, social policy,
cultural studies and anthropology.
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