What Type of Citizenship Education? What Type of Citizen?  

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Maitles, Henry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Improving School vol. 4 no. 2 (Jan. 2001), page 23-27.
Topik: Political Literacy; Society and Change
Fulltext: 23IS42.pdf (373.11KB)

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I was fortunate enough to attend a conference on culture and democracy in China recently. It struck me, as I was preparing my paper on the effectiveness of political education in schools, that there had been in Beijing a key event in terms of the type of citizenship education that we might want to try to develop in our schools. The movement for democracy in China and the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square was an inspiring moment. In particular, in the confrontation with the army, the picture of the student in front of the tanks throws up a vital problem relating to both democracy and citizenship: in essence, there are two models of citizen-the twenty year olds in the tank and the twenty year olds in front of the tank.

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