Citizenship Education and Lifelong Learning: Power and PlaceMichael Williams, Graham Humphrys Nova Publishers, 2003 - 276 頁 Across the globe citizenship education is high on the reform agendas of policy makers and educators. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the entry of former Soviet bloc states into the European Union, the fragmentation of the former Yugoslavia, the major population movements from poor to rich countries, and the increased threats of international terrorism and civil wars in many states have all added to the need to provide up-dated and reflective approaches to citizenship education. Within nation states, the impact of globalisation on social, economic and political structures has caused power shifts across and within international borders demanding greater citizenship awareness and participation. The effect of these changes and the practice and needs of citizenship are profoundly affected by the distinctive particulars of the places in which they occur. This is an essential ingredient in any understanding of what is happening and of any program addressing the resulting citizenship challenges. Too often, citizenship education has been perceived simply as a matter for schools. In this book, the discussion is extended to embrace post-school education. It is acknowledged that the educa |
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Globalisation and Localisation | 61 |
Citizenship Education and Education for Work | 73 |
Environmental Citizenship Education | 89 |
National Studies | 101 |
The Essence of Citizenship Education and Lifelong Learning Lessons from Nigeria | 141 |
Education and Citizenship in Pakistan An Overview | 153 |
Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom A Home International Analysis | 167 |
Severe Challenges to the Education System in Germany | 185 |
The Baltic States Latvia and Citizenship Education | 197 |
Educational Policy in Brazil The TechnicalScientificInformational Environment and the Demands of Citizenship Education in the Used Territory | 209 |
Lifelong Learning and Citizenship Education in Argentina A Challenge Taken up by NonGovernmental Organisations NGOs | 225 |
From Sea to Shining Sea Citizenship and Civic Education in the United States | 235 |
China Defending Socialism with Chinese Characteristics | 103 |
Citizenship Education in Japan | 119 |
Australian Citizenship A Continuing State of Becoming | 131 |
Dissonance and Assonance in the Cultural Mosaic Reflections on a Canadian Educational Problematic | 251 |
Index | 267 |
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第 121 頁 - Know ye, Our subjects: Our Imperial Ancestors have founded Our Empire on a basis broad and everlasting and have deeply and firmly implanted virtue: our subjects ever united in loyalty and filial piety have from generation to generation illustrated the beauty thereof. This is the glory of the fundamental character of Our Empire, and herein also lies the source of Our education.
第 36 頁 - States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the view of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.
第 121 頁 - Ye, Our subjects, be filial to your parents, affectionate to your brothers and sisters; as husbands and wives be harmonious, as friends true; bear yourselves in modesty and moderation; extend your benevolence to all; pursue learning and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties and perfect moral powers; furthermore, advance public good and promote common interests; always respect the Constitution and observe the laws; should emergency arise, offer yourselves courageously to the State;...
第 237 頁 - Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame. With conquering limbs astride from land to land. Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the Imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles, from her beacon-hand Glows world wide welcome: her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!
第 122 頁 - Imperial Throne coeval with heaven and earth. So shall ye not only be Our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers. The Way here set forth is indeed the teaching bequeathed by Our Imperial Ancestors, to be observed alike by Their Descendants and the subjects, infallible for all ages and true in all places. It is Our wish to lay it to heart in all reverence, in common with you, Our subjects, that we may all thus attain to the same virtue.
第 237 頁 - Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
第 91 頁 - The civil element is composed of the rights necessary for individual freedom - liberty of the person, freedom of speech, thought and faith, the right to own property and to conclude valid contracts, and the right to justice.
第 122 頁 - ... always respect the Constitution and observe the laws; should emergency arise, offer yourselves courageously to the State; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of Our Imperial Throne coeval with heaven and earth. So shall ye not only be Our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers. The Way here set forth is indeed the teaching bequeathed by Our Imperial Ancestors, to be observed alike by Their Descendants and Their subjects, infallible for...
第 122 頁 - ... eighteenth-century gentlemen, who in some respects resembled Chinese literati, have become impossible for the same reasons. Modern Japan affords the clearest illustration of a tendency which is prominent among all the Great Powers — the tendency to make national greatness the supreme purpose of education. The aim of Japanese education is to produce citizens who shall be devoted to the State through the training of their passions, and useful to it through the knowledge they have acquired. I...
第 200 頁 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist state of the whole people, expressing the will and interests of the workers, peasants, and intelligentsia, the working people of all the nations and nationalities of the country.