Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Copyright page / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Acknowledgements / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Notes on Contributors / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Introduction / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Part 1 Domain 1: Civic Identities and Forms of Participation / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Chapter 1 Is It Radical to Be Kind? / Benjamin Bowman -- Chapter 2 What Does ‘Belonging’ Mean? / Pinar Burcu Güner -- Chapter 3 Not Everyone Thinks It’s Bad / Arvid Nagel, Horst Biedermann, and Fritz Oser -- Chapter 4 Wasteful, Wary, or Wishful / Siwen Zhang Minero -- Part 2 Domain 2: What Are the Sources of Concepts, Discourses, and Definitions? / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Chapter 5 An Unexpected Moral Lesson from High School Science among Chinese Adolescents / Chen Chen -- Chapter 6 The Rural-Urban Divide and the Making of the Chinese Citizen / Xin Xiang -- Chapter 7 The Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Citizenship Education / Liu Jiang -- Chapter 8 Conference of the Oppressed / Alen Agaronov -- Part 3 Domain 3: Contemporary Debates and Controversial Issues around Civic and Socio-Political Questions / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Chapter 9 Abnormal Justice and School Closure / Jacob Fay -- Chapter 10 Anti-Discrimination as Institutional New Civics, or in Loco Parentis by a Different Name? / Matthew Patrick Shaw -- Chapter 11 Reciprocity in Practice / James Noonan -- Chapter 12 Locating Empowerment and Technical Intuition in How We Frame U.S. Civic Education / Erhardt Graeff -- Part 4 Domain 4: Educational Practice and Pedagogy / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat -- Chapter 13 Cultivating Democratic Climates in Primary School Classrooms in Colombia / Sanjay K. Nanwani -- Chapter 14 The ABC s of Citizenship / Bonnie B. Mackintosh -- Chapter 15 How Mock Elections May (Not) Promote Thick Democratic Engagement / Isolde de Groot -- Chapter 16 ‘Beyond Two-Sided Stories’ / Everardo Perez-Manjarrez -- Index / Helen Haste and Janine Bempechat.

How we think about civic participation has changed dramatically and informs our understanding of how civic education is being transformed. Nations, globally, are redefining what is needed to be a ‘good citizen’ and how they should create them. ‘Civic’ participation increasingly extends beyond voting in elections, to informal and unconventional action. Making one’s voice heard involves diverse communication media and wide-ranging skills. Young people are motivated to engagement by concern about climate change and the rights of marginalised people. Social media empower but bring the threat of extremism. Civic education – New Civics – must channel and foster these trends. To create critical, active and responsible citizenship, knowledge alone is not enough; young people need to able to take critical perspectives on a wide range of social and political issues, and to acquire the social, cognitive and organizational skills to do so. How is new civics pedagogy being manifested? What traditional practices are under scrutiny? In this volume sixteen projects in eight countries address questions in research, practices, policy and professional development. What is civic identity and how does participation reflect it? Where do new discourses and definitions come from? How do contemporary social and cultural debates and issues intersect with practice and precepts?

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