Reimagining Civic Education

Doyle Stevick is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina and Founder and Chair of the Citizenship and Democratic Education group in the Comparative and International Education Society. A Fulbright Fellow to Estonia in 2003, he has given presentations in seven countries and been translated into four languages.Bradley A. U. Levinson, an anthropologist, is Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University. His research interests include student culture and identity formation, the ethnography of education policy, immigrant education, and citizenship education for democracy. His books include We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School (Duke University Press), Policy as Practice (with Margaret Sutton, Greenwood) and Rowman and Littlefield's Schooling the Symbolic Animal: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education.

This volume brings together researchers who enrich the discourse about citizenship education in numerous ways: they cross disciplines, expand pedagogical models, encompass studies on both the young and the old, and report on a wide range of countries.

• Part 1 The View From the School: Students and Teachers Negotiating Democratic CitizenshipChapter 1 Civic Education in Two Worlds: Contestation and Conflict over the Civic in School and Community on the Spokane Indian ReservationPart 2 Not Just for Kids: Adults as Citizens in Learning/Challenging DemocracyChapter 2 Reformasi, Civic Education and Indonesian Secondary School TeachersChapter 3 Democratic Pentecost in El Salvador? Civic Education and Professional Practice in a Private High SchoolPart 3 States Forming Citizens: Policy and Cultural ContestationChapter 4 Curricular Intervention and Greek-Cypriot Pupils' Constructions of Citizenship: Can 'Europe' Include Immigrants?Chapter 5 Education for Democracy: The Text and Context of Freire's Circles of Culture in BrazilChapter 6 Examining Peripheries of Substantive Democracy in Lithuania From the Teachers' Point of View: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of the Financial Reform in EducationChapter 7 Developing Citizen Leaders for Democratic Governance in South AfricaChapter 8 Citizenship Education in the 'New Europe': Who Belongs?Chapter 9 The Politics of the Holocaust in Estonia: Historical Memory and Social Divisions in Estonian EducationChapter 10 Forming and Implementing A New Secondary Civic Education Program in Mexico: Toward a Democratic Citizen without AdjectivesChapter 11 The Emergence of Global Citizenship Education in JapanChapter 12 Intercultural and Global Meanings in the Australian Secondary Curriculum: Between Critical Contestations and Minimal Constructions