Democratic Citizenship Education in Non-Western Contexts: Implications for Theory and Research

Democratic Citizenship Education in Non-Western Contexts: Implications for Theory and Research
ISBN-10
1000024105
ISBN-13
9781000024104
Category
Education
Pages
134
Language
English
Published
2020-06-30
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Serhiy Kovalchuk, Anatoli Rapoport

Description

This book examines the issues of theorizing citizenship education research in non-Western societies that have embarked on democratic development after the fall of authoritarianism and colonialism. Despite a proliferation of studies on citizenship and citizenship education in non-Western contexts, there has been limited theorization of this research and little discussion of the applicability to such contexts of Western theoretical frameworks. This volume addresses these issues through empirical case studies of citizenship conceptions, practices, and education in South and West Africa, Latin America, Central Europe, and the Middle East. The contributors to the volume call into question the uncritical application of Western theoretical frameworks to non-Western societies and advocate for the development and wider application of new paradigms rooted in local processes and indigenous knowledge to better understand and theorize citizenship and citizenship education in such societies. This volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and practitioners working in the field of comparative and international citizenship education. It was originally published as a special issue of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

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