Troubling the Canon of Citizenship Education

The discourse of civic education privileges liberal democratic understandings of citizenship. Yet we know that such understandings do not accurately represent the complex, plural, and problematic nature of citizenship in contemporary society. To stimulate

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Troubling the Canon of Citizenship Education

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David W. Blades

George H. Richardson

PART I Troubling Places for Citizenship Education

The Cult of Citizenship Education

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Alan M. Sears

Emery J. Hyslop-Margison

The Lonely Citizen: Democracy, Curriculum, and the Crisis of Belonging

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Terrance R. Carson

Diversity and Democratic Values: Implications for Public Policy

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Yvonne Hebert

Lori Wilkinson

PART II Troubling School Subjects as Citizenship Education

Education and the (Im)Possibilities of Citizenship

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Jennifer Tupper

``Weak Ontology'' as a Way of Reenchanting Citizenship in the Social Studies: A Memo with Some Random Notes

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Hans Smits

Watch This [White] Space: Canadian Students Interrogating Citizenship and Identity

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Jyoti Mangat

Dislocating the Dominant Narratives of Citizenship in English Language Arts

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Ingrid Johnston

PART III Troubling Bodies in Citizenship Education

Defining Presence as Agents of Social Life and Change

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Kent den Heyer

Queering Citizenship

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Lori B. Macintosh

Lisa W. Loutzenheiser

From Chattel to Citizenry: The Gender of the Law in the Sexual Politics of Race

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William F. Pinar

PART IV Troubling Visions of Citizenship Education

Restarting the Interrupted Discourse of the Public Good: Global Citizenship Education as Moral Imperative

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David W. Blades

George H. Richardson

Troubles with the Sacred Canopy: Global Citizenship in a Season of Great Untruth

124

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David Geoffrey Smith

List of Contributors

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Index

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