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Book SynopsisA 2023 CIES Book of the Month pick! How we think about civic participation has changed dramatically and informs our understanding of how civic education is being transformed. Nations, globally, are redefining what is needed to be a ‘good citizen’ and how they should create them. ‘Civic’ participation increasingly extends beyond voting in elections, to informal and unconventional action. Making one’s voice heard involves diverse communication media and wide-ranging skills. Young people are motivated to engagement by concern about climate change and the rights of marginalised people. Social media empower but bring the threat of extremism. Civic education – New Civics – must channel and foster these trends. To create critical, active and responsible citizenship, knowledge alone is not enough; young people need to able to take critical perspectives on a wide range of social and political issues, and to acquire the social, cognitive and organizational skills to do so. How is new civics pedagogy being manifested? What traditional practices are under scrutiny? In this volume sixteen projects in eight countries address questions in research, practices, policy and professional development. What is civic identity and how does participation reflect it? Where do new discourses and definitions come from? How do contemporary social and cultural debates and issues intersect with practice and precepts?
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: New Civics, New Citizens: Critical, Competent and Responsible Agents Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat PART 1: Domain 1: Civic Identities and Forms of Participation 1 Is It Radical to Be Kind? New Civic Education in the Era of Young People’s Dissent Benjamin Bowman 2 What Does ‘Belonging’ Mean? The Goals and Tensions of Dual Identity Pinar Burcu Güner 3 Not Everyone Thinks It’s Bad: A Study of Teenagers’ Attitudes towards Cyberbullying Arvid Nagel, Horst Biedermann and Fritz Oser 4 Wasteful, Wary, or Wishful: Chinese Teachers’ Perceptions of Students’ Civic Duties Siwen Zhang Minero PART 2: Domain 2: What Are the Sources of Concepts, Discourses, and Definitions? 5 An Unexpected Moral Lesson from High School Science among Chinese Adolescents Chen Chen 6 The Rural-Urban Divide and the Making of the Chinese Citizen: Past and Present Xin Xiang 7 The Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Citizenship Education: Ordinary Ethics of Student Government in Chinese Classrooms Liu Jiang 8 Conference of the Oppressed: Lecture-Performing the Science Poster Presentation Alen Agaronov PART 3: Domain 3: Contemporary Debates and Controversial Issues around Civic and Socio-Political Questions 9 Abnormal Justice and School Closure Jacob Fay 10 Anti-Discrimination as Institutional New Civics, or In Loco Parentis by a Different Name? Matthew Patrick Shaw 11 Reciprocity in Practice: Using Deliberative Democratic Theory to Reframe and Improve Teacher Professional Development James Noonan 12 Locating Empowerment and Technical Intuition in How We Frame U.S. Civic Education Erhardt Graeff PART 4: Domain 4: Educational Practice and Pedagogy 13 Cultivating Democratic Climates in Primary School Classrooms in Colombia: Pastors, Radical Democrats, Semi-Democrats, and Tyrants Sanjay K. Nanwani 14 The ABC s of Citizenship: Why Social Skills Matter for Preschoolers’ Early Math and (Later) Civic Skills Bonnie B. Mackintosh 15 How Mock Elections May (Not) Promote Thick Democratic Engagement Isolde de Groot 16 ‘Beyond Two-Sided Stories’: Multi-Perspectivity in History and Civic Learning Everardo Perez-Manjarrez Index
