Politics, Participation and Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community

Until recently, youth have become the great absence regarding matters of citizenship, justice, and democracy. Rarely are young people taken up with the important discourses of freedom and citizenship, especially discourses that transcend national boundaries and academic disciplines. Richard Mitchell and Shannon Moore have put together a brilliant book that not only fills this void, but makes one of the most powerful cases I have read for addressing young people in terms that not only allow them to talk back, be heard, but also to enjoy those rights and freedoms that give democracy a real claim on its ideals and promises. Every educator, parent, student, and all those young people now making their voices heard all over the world should read this book. Henry A. Giroux This diverse collection will appeal to students in senior undergraduate and graduate courses looking into the new cosmopolitanism in social policy, citizenship or cultural studies, in child and youth studies, and in post-colonial approaches to education, sociology, and political science. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Introduction....Pages 1-7 School Power and Democratic Citizenship Education in China....Pages 9-34 Critical Citizenship, Popular Theatre, and the Social Imagination of Pre-Service Teachers....Pages 35-49 The Corporatization of the University....Pages 51-62 Deliberative Democracy, People’s Agency and Education....Pages 63-82 Synthesizing Participatory Human Rights Education and Critical Consciousness in Australian Schools....Pages 83-100 Children’s Rights and Teachers’ Responsibilities....Pages 101-117 Critical Citizens or Neo-Liberal consumers? Utopian Visions and Pragmatic Uses of Human Rights Education in A Secondary School in England....Pages 119-136 The Politics of Critical Citizenship Education....Pages 137-151 Writing Community....Pages 153-168 Media Representations of Muslim Women Wearing the Burka....Pages 169-181 Transdisciplinary Approaches to Young People’s Citizenship....Pages 183-205 Back Matter....Pages 207-209