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Author(s): Malik Ajani

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Year: 2015

Language: English

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Author: Malik Ajani

In today’s world, people speak more than 6000 languages and identify with thousands of cultural groups and a large variety of different religions. Despite such a number of differences, these and other features of human diversity are housed politically, inside roughly 200 nation-states. Globally speaking, a diverse citizenry is an unavoidable fact for most countries across the planet. Additionally, developments such as transnational migrations, rising socio-economic inequalities, the “War(s) on Terror”, and political movements based on absolutist ideologies continue to raise broader questions of justice, governance, equality, quality of life and social cohesion. As such, recent decades have witnessed a revival of debates concerning what it means to be a “citizen”. In response to such trends, nations such as Australia, Canada, and Britain have committed themselves to teaching citizenship through their national curriculums. Moreover, all European Union member states have integrated some form of citizenship education into their primary and secondary curriculums. Acknowledging such developments, this book uses discussions with citizenship educators as a backdrop for a critical analysis of various conceptions of citizenship, such as liberal, social-democratic, civic-republican, cosmopolitan and multicultural citizenship. It also analyses how these educators approach the contemporary reality of nation states, which are richly composed of a diverse citizenry. Given Britain’s transformation into a multi-ethnic and multi-faith society, this book develops, as a case study, an understanding of how religious and cultural difference can be approached. What makes this work unique is that it gleans ideas and research from a wide field of international scholarship, such as political science, philosophy, education, and cultural studies. A further unique aspect of the book is that it uses the q-methodology, a research method used to study people’s viewpoints, to reveal some shared perspectives on citizenship. In doing so, the path traced here leads to the discovery of spaces where citizenship educators – despite their ethnic/religious diversity – display “common ground” on values, beliefs and aims related to citizenship. This book will prove to be a useful resource for academics, educators and political leaders, as well as interfaith and civil society professionals at large. It is worth mentioning that even though this book has benefited from the generously contributed ideas of citizenship educators in England, its scholarly research, lessons, arguments, analysis and suggestions, which focus on multi-faith and multi-ethnic societies, will also be useful elsewhere.

Citizenship the Self and the Other Critical Discussions on Citizenship and How to Approach Religious and Cultural Difference 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter One: How Did We Get Here? Setting the Stage for Citizenship and Approaching Diversity

Conceptions of citizenship
Defining citizenship
School and identity formation
Why citizenship education?
Context of citizenship education in England
Diversity and citizenship
Dealing with religious and cultural diversity
Overlapping boundaries
Political use of rigid categories
Diversity and attitudes towards the ‘Other’
Education under the shadow of neo-liberalism
Racism and education

Chapter Two: Ancient Athenian Citizenship, the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’

Introduction
Greek ideals of citizenship vs. realities
Who was an Athenian citizen?
Citizenship and framing of the ‘Other’
Shared perspectives of women, slaves, youth
Treatment of non-Athenian Greeks
Moving beyond “active citizenship”
Implications for teachers and othering

Chapter Three: Shared Perspectives of Citizenship Educators

Educator backgrounds & q-methodology
Shared Perspective 1: Liberal idealism
Shared Perspective 2: Social-democratic/global citizenship
Shared Perspective 3: Active multiculturalism
Identity, race, religion and culture
Civic values and global responsibilities
Views on multicultural citizenship

Chapter Four: ‘Common Ground’ Between Citizenship Educators

Cultural permeability
Shared “likes” & “dislikes”
Citizenship and attitudes toward foreigners
Passport ≠ citizenship?
Citizenship in neo-liberal contexts
A cosmopolitan “golden rule” of citizenship

Chapter Five: The ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’

Visions of citizenship: exclusivism, inclusivism, pluralism
Implications of “othering”
Perceptions of a “superior” Self vs. a “flawed” Other
Educators’ awareness of “othering” in society
Media, neighbors, and educational spaces
Fostering belonging and addressing distance in education

Chapter Six: Toward a Strategic Approach

Reflecting on the research findings
Proposing pedagogical and conceptual strategies for multi-faith/multi-ethnic societies
Limitations and opportunities in citizenship education

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