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Citizenship: The
Civic Ideal in World History, Politics and Education Derek Heater |
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This book describes, analyses and interprets the topic of
citizenship in a global context as it has developed historically, in its
variations as a political concept and status, and the ways in which citizens
have been and are being educated for that status. The topic is complex
and in attempt to provide the reader with a manageable single volume, this
book is divided into three parts: History, Analysis and Synthesis. The third
part introduced, when the book was first published, and notion of 'multiple
citizenship'. |
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The historical survey
not only covers the range from the Greeks to the twentieth century, but
reveals the legacies which each era passed on to later centuries. Similarly,
the part devoted to analysis not only explains the feeling of citizenship,
what political citizenship entails and the nature of citizenship as a status,
but also tackles the issue of whether there can be a generally accepted,
holistic understanding of the idea(l). The third
part attempts to provide a solution. For this edition an epilogue has been
written to demonstrate how vigorous the academic and pedagogical debates on
the subject are, and how alive the practical matters are relating to the
status since 1990. Anyone interested in
the topical subject of citizenship and wishing to read a single, thorough
treatment will find this unique book interesting and valuable; those who know
the highly-regarded previous edition will welcome this new, fully revised
edition. Derek Heater was Dean of the
Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at the then Brighton Polytechnic, and
was co-founder of the Politics Association. He has taught History at
Secondary and Higher education level and is the author of a number of books
on citizenship. |