Citizenship Books

New and Published Books

1. Using Critical Research for Educational and Social Change

   Edited by Tricia Kress

   This volume features the works of scholar-practitioners who embrace critical pedagogy and critical research as praxis in qualitative research about education. The authors take an explicit stance toward social justice through education, and they use critical research as a vehicle toward that end.&...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Peace Through Education (Routledge Revivals)

   The Contribution of the Council for Education in World Citizenship

   By Derek Heater

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1984, Peace Through Education records the history of the first 45 years of the Council for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC). It describes the rise in interest of increased international understanding in the years preceding the book’s publication and highlights the...

   Published September 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Children, Citizenship and Environment

   Nurturing a Democratic Imagination in a Changing World

   By Bronwyn Hayward

   Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere,...

   Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Media Teacher's Handbook

   Edited by Elaine Scarratt, Jon Davison

   The Media Teacher’s Handbook is an indispensible guide for all teachers, both specialist and non-specialist, delivering Media Studies and media education in secondary schools and colleges. It is the first text to draw together the three key elements of secondary sector teaching in relation to...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
5. The Values Education Resource File

   A Practical Kit for Exploring the things that Matter

   By Ray Baxter

   Start exploring today! The Values Education Resource File is a highly practical kit, developed with schools for schools, to provide you with a straightforward way of thinking about the things that matter to you and your young people. It includes everything you need to help children and young...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
6. Debates in Citizenship Education

   Edited by James Arthur, Hilary Cremin

   Series: Debates in Subject Teaching

   What are the key issues in Citizenship Education today? Debates in Citizenship Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on some of the key topics, concepts and debates that they will have to address throughout their career. It places the specialist field of...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School… Humanities

   History, Geography, Religious Studies and Citizenship

   By Richard Harris, Simon Harrison, Richard McFahn

   Series: Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in...

   What is the role of the humanities in the modern school? Should geography, history, RE and Citizenship teachers remain faithful to long-standing subject cultures and pedagogies? Or is there another way to consider how the curriculum, and the notion of individual subjects and teachers’ pedagogy,...

   Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Complete Citizenship Resource File

   A comprehensive programme for Years 7-11

   By Andrew McCallum

   The Complete Citizenship Resource File is the comprehensive resource pack for teaching Citizenship Education from Years 7 to 11. It contains everything you need to teach lively and engaging lessons that encourage students to take an interest in topical and controversial issues and actively...

   Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Making Citizens

   Transforming Civic Learning for Diverse Social Studies Classrooms

   By Beth C. Rubin

   Can social studies classrooms be effective "makers" of citizens if much of what occurs in these classrooms does little to prepare young people to participate in the civic and political life of our democracy? Making Citizens illustrates how social studies can recapture its civic purpose through an...

   Published June 27th 2011 by Routledge
10. Global Learning and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Helen Gadsby, Andrea Bullivant

    Series: Teaching contemporary themes in secondary education

    Global learning and sustainable development encompass some of the key ideas and challenges facing the world today: challenges such as climate change, globalization and interdependence. Schools increasingly recognize the role of education in addressing these issues with young people, but exploring...

    Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge