Citizenship

A gilded web?

• Linda Milbourne
• Ursula Murray

Why have civil society organizations become trapped in a gilded web of privatized, neo-liberal arrangements, reinforcing the systems they were established to reform? Drawing on research from diverse fields, this book aims to reawaken the critical voices that could challenge the growing inequalities and failures of current social systems.

Lessons in power and democracy

• Titus Alexander

Practical politics should be part of every school and college curriculum, with this handbook a basic text for the subject. It affords insights into how power and democracy work everywhere – in family, office and state – and shows how education in practical politics can enable people to recognize and deal with political problems.

• Marta Fulop
• Merryn Hutchings
• Anne-Marie Van Den Dries

A basic knowledge of economics is critical for making informed decisions in today’s world. This volume focuses on the economic understanding of different age groups, at different levels, from personal to international.

Moral Education in the Balance

• Richard Smith
• Paul Standish

This volume tackles the key issues in moral education in a style accessible to professional educators and general readers. It takes into account the real contexts of people’s lives, broadens the terms of discussion of morality and draws conclusions to guide the practice of moral education.

• Audrey Osler
• Hanns-Fred Rathenow
• Hugh Starkey

This text provides guidance for teachers and schools seeking to encourage their pupils to see themselves as part of a European community. The contributors, who come from all over Europe, examine the values needed for teaching in pluralist societies and developing global responsibility in schools.

• Luigi Cajani
• Alistair Ross

Explores the relationship between models of history teaching, their impact on the building of collective, and individual identities and civic education, and particularly conflict solution and intercultural education. With the theoretical focus on historical consciousness, the geographical focus is – Europe and its Mediterranean neighbours.

World Studies in the Primary Curriculum

• Miriam Steiner

In our shrinking world the case for world studies throughout the curriculum is self-evident. Yet many teachers feel that their curriculum is so heavily loaded that there is no space left for it. This book aims to provide the solution by showing how foundation subjects can be enhanced.

• Sharmina Mawani
• Anjoom A. Mukadam

Gujarati Communities across the Globe is the first study to offer insight into the everyday lives and evolving identities negotiated by Gujaratis in a global context: in India, the United Kingdom, North America, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa and South Asia. Its orientation around the themes of nationalism, migration, new ethnicities, language and religion makes it an essential resource for students of South Asian studies, religious studies, the sociology of religion, social anthropology, diasporic studies, cultural and ethnic studies. It will also interest those who wish to understand how identities of a diasporic and post-diasporic community can be strengthened despite moving away from one’s original roots. Dr. Sharmina Mawani and Dr. Anjoom Mukadam are lecturers at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; they serve on the Executive Board of the Gujarat Studies Association and joint editors of Gujaratis in the West: Evolving Identities in Contemporary Society.

• Jean-Pierre Jallade

This book is a contribution to the European Cultural Foundation’s (ECF) policy of promoting scientific studies and exchanges in areas of common interest to all European countries. It is because questions related to employment, unemployment, and the role of work in society undoubtedly belong to these areas that the ECF, together with the Queen Juliana Foundation, has now established, in Maastricht, the European Centre for Work and Society, whose programme will focus on such topics and whose development received its initial stimulus from the proceedings of the Hague Conference set forth in this book.

• Arjen Wals
• Tony Shallcross
• John Robinson
• Paul Pace

An outcome of a seven-year European Commission funded project on professional development for pre-service and in-service, this book contributes to the UN decade of education for sustainable development. It is useful for trainee teachers and teachers studying courses in whole school development and education for sustainable development.