1st Edition

Citizenship Through Secondary Geography

Edited By David Lambert, Paul Machon Copyright 2001
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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 exclusion a number of inset activities 'for further thinking' a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through geography... Read more
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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David Lambert, Paul Machon

'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