Cameron White is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction / Social Education at the University of Houston. Roger Openshaw is Professor in Social and Policy Studies in Education at Massey University in New Zealand. Pamela Keller is a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction / Social Education at the University of Houston.

Democracy at the Crossroads plumbs the core issues of citizenship education, namely, what constitutes the “good citizen” in today’s globalized society and how individuals come to understand and act on their world. White, Openshaw, and Keller have brought together an impressive group of scholars from around the world in their efforts to unpack the history, assumptions, and practices of citizenship education while critically examining influence of globalization and neoliberalism on the curriculum and aims of social studies education in the 21st century. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested moving beyond the platitudes and passivity that have hitherto marked the dominant strains of education for democracy.

• 1 Preface2 Part I: Tensions3 Democracy at the Crossroads?4 Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Education for Citizenship in New Zealand5 Freedom or French Fries: Packaged Democracy for World Consumption6 Towards a Model of Citizenship Education: Coping with Differences in Definition7 Critical Democratic Education for Social Efficacy8 Entwined Ideals: Connecting Democracy to Peace9 Part II: Unpacking Approaches10 Developing a Global Dimension in Dutch Education11 The Social Construction of a Curriculum for Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom12 Reexamining Competing Views of Citizenship Education and Their Influence On Social Studies13 Developing Global Citizens: The Rhetoric and the Reality in the New Zealand Curriculum14 Citizenship Education and the Crick Report in England and Wales15 Part III: National Exemplars16 Suffering from Enthusiasts? Some Relevant National Case Studies for Global Citizenship Advocates17 Perceptions of Citizenship in Australia18 Whose Civics, Whose Citizen: Reconceptualizing U.S. Democracy In the Post Industrial Era19 Locating Democracy: Meanings and Intersections in the Czech Republic20 Part IV: School-Based Studies21 Dealing with Discourses: U.S. Teaching about the Pacific War and Shifting Locations of "American" Identities22 Jefferson County Open School: Voices of Global Citizenship

Cameron White is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction / Social Education at the University of Houston. Roger Openshaw is Professor in Social and Policy Studies in Education at Massey University in New Zealand. Pamela Keller is a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction / Social Education at the University of Houston.

Democracy at the Crossroads plumbs the core issues of citizenship education, namely, what constitutes the “good citizen” in today’s globalized society and how individuals come to understand and act on their world. White, Openshaw, and Keller have brought together an impressive group of scholars from around the world in their efforts to unpack the history, assumptions, and practices of citizenship education while critically examining influence of globalization and neoliberalism on the curriculum and aims of social studies education in the 21st century. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested moving beyond the platitudes and passivity that have hitherto marked the dominant strains of education for democracy.

• 1 Preface2 Part I: Tensions3 Democracy at the Crossroads?4 Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Education for Citizenship in New Zealand5 Freedom or French Fries: Packaged Democracy for World Consumption6 Towards a Model of Citizenship Education: Coping with Differences in Definition7 Critical Democratic Education for Social Efficacy8 Entwined Ideals: Connecting Democracy to Peace9 Part II: Unpacking Approaches10 Developing a Global Dimension in Dutch Education11 The Social Construction of a Curriculum for Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom12 Reexamining Competing Views of Citizenship Education and Their Influence On Social Studies13 Developing Global Citizens: The Rhetoric and the Reality in the New Zealand Curriculum14 Citizenship Education and the Crick Report in England and Wales15 Part III: National Exemplars16 Suffering from Enthusiasts? Some Relevant National Case Studies for Global Citizenship Advocates17 Perceptions of Citizenship in Australia18 Whose Civics, Whose Citizen: Reconceptualizing U.S. Democracy In the Post Industrial Era19 Locating Democracy: Meanings and Intersections in the Czech Republic20 Part IV: School-Based Studies21 Dealing with Discourses: U.S. Teaching about the Pacific War and Shifting Locations of "American" Identities22 Jefferson County Open School: Voices of Global Citizenship