商品簡介
Peterson (Canterbury Christ Church U., UK) explores processes of civic education, focusing primarily on formal teaching and learning of civic education in schools for pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 in contemporary Western democracies, while recognizing that civic education is a diffuse process that also involves the whole system of laws, institutions, and civic participation within political communities across the life-span. He is prompted in the work by a concern that civic republican ideas are being used to frame and inform the aims and purposes of civic education, as well as its curricular content, without a clear understanding of the true nature and complexities of contemporary civic republican thought, including the historical tradition upon which it is based. He addresses what such an understanding might contribute to civics education practices. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
ANDREW PETERSON is Senior Lecturer in Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He lectures and researches in citizenship education, and has also published on the theme of moral education.
