Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized World: Citizenship Education in Comparative Perspective

by Catherine Broom (Editor)

Overview

In this book, the authors explore the apparent decline in youth civic engagement through research studies conducted in seven societies/nations with varied experiences with democracy. This work is framed within a youth civic engagement model. Each subsequent chapter presents the findings for each nation, along with contextual and historical discussions of citizenship education. This book explores the findings in Canada, England, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, and Mexico.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137565327
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/19/2016
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Catherine Broom is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at University of British Columbia, Canada. Her work focuses on the areas of local and global citizenship, history of education, and social studies education. She is the journal editor of Citizenship Education Research Journal (CERJ).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Youth Civic Engagement in Context.- Chapter 2: Citizenship Education in Canada, past and present.- Chapter 3: Exploring Youth Civic Engagement, A view from England.- Chapter 4: Youth Civic Engagement in Hong Kong: A Glimpse into Two Systems Under One China.- Chapter 5: Citizenship Education Discourse(s) in India .- Chapter 6: The Contradictory Place of Civic Education in the Italian Education System.- Chapter 7: Citizenship Education in Japan, Past, Present, Future.- Chapter 8: Exploring Youth Civic Engagement and Disengagement in Mexico.- Chapter 9: Book Conclusion: Youth Civic Engagement or Disengagement, Civic Mindsets and Democracy.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“In an era when polemic often triumphs over evidence in the public square, Broom and colleagues present the findings of an ambitious international initiative to understand the current state of youth civic engagement. Building on a shared conceptual frame yielding intriguing comparative data, researchers from seven states—Canada, England, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan and Mexico—generate fresh insights and challenging questions about how and why our younger fellow citizens engage in the polis.” (Michael Johanek, Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Education and Director, Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, University of Pennsylvania, USA)