Politics, Participation & Power Relations / edited by Richard C. Mitchell, Shannon A. Moore.

• Superior document: Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching
• HerausgeberIn: Mitchell, Richard C.; Moore, Shannon A.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Richard C. Mitchell and Moore Shannon A. -- Introduction / Richard C. Mitchell and Shannon A. Moore -- School power and democratic citizenship education in China / Wangbei Ye -- Critical citizenship, popular theatre, and the social imagination of pre-service teachers / Sandra J. Wolf -- The corporatization of the university / Emery Hyslop-Margison and Josephine L. Savarese -- Deliberative democracy, people’s agency and education / Gaysu R. Arvind -- Synthesizing participatory human rights education and critical consciousness in Australian schools / Keith Heggart -- Children’s rights and teachers’ responsibilities / Lee Jerome -- Critical citizens or neo-liberal consumers? Utopian visions and pragmatic uses of human rights education in a secondary school in England / Sam Mejias and Hugh Starkey -- The politics of critical citizenship education / Helen Trivers and Hugh Starkey -- Writing community / Paul. L. Thomas -- Media representations of Muslim women wearing the burka / May Al-Fartousi and Dolana Mogadime -- Transdisciplinary approaches to young people’s citizenship / Shannon A. Moore and Richard C. Mitchell -- Author Biography / Richard C. Mitchell and Moore Shannon A..