This volume surveys the new global landscape for democratic civic education. Rooted in qualitative researc, the contributors explore the many ways that notions of democracy and citizenship have been implemented in recent education policy, curriculum, and classroom practice around the world. From Indonesia to the Spokane Reservation and El Salvador to Estonia, these chapters reveal a striking diversity of approaches to political socialization in varying cultural and institutional contexts. By bringing to bear the methodological, conceptual and theoretical perspectives of qualitative research, this book adds important new voices to one of educationOs most critical debates: how to form democratic citizens in a changing world.

This volume surveys the new global landscape for democratic civic education. Rooted in qualitative researc, the contributors explore the many ways that notions of democracy and citizenship have been implemented in recent education policy, curriculum, and classroom practice around the world. From Indonesia to the Spokane Reservation and El Salvador to Estonia, these chapters reveal a striking diversity of approaches to political socialization in varying cultural and institutional contexts. By bringing to bear the methodological, conceptual and theoretical perspectives of qualitative research, this book adds important new voices to one of educationOs most critical debates: how to form democratic citizens in a changing world.

Chapter 1 Civic Education in Two Worlds: Contestation and Conflict over the Civic in School and Community on the Spokane Indian Reservation
Chapter 1 The View From the School: Students and Teachers Negotiating Democratic Citizenship
Chapter 2 Not Just for Kids: Adults as Citizens in Learning/Challenging Democracy
Chapter 2 Reformasi, Civic Education and Indonesian Secondary School Teachers
Chapter 3 Democratic Pentecost in El Salvador? Civic Education and Professional Practice in a Private High School
Chapter 3 States Forming Citizens: Policy and Cultural Contestation
Chapter 4 Curricular Intervention and Greek-Cypriot Pupils' Constructions of Citizenship: Can 'Europe' Include Immigrants?
Chapter 5 Education for Democracy: The Text and Context of Freire's Circles of Culture in Brazil
Chapter 6 Examining Peripheries of Substantive Democracy in Lithuania From the Teachers' Point of View: Intended and Unintended Outcomes of the Financial Reform in Education
Chapter 7 Developing Citizen Leaders for Democratic Governance in South Africa
Chapter 8 Citizenship Education in the 'New Europe': Who Belongs?
Chapter 9 The Politics of the Holocaust in Estonia: Historical Memory and Social Divisions in Estonian Education
Chapter 10 Forming and Implementing A New Secondary Civic Education Program in Mexico: Toward a Democratic Citizen without Adjectives
Chapter 11 The Emergence of Global Citizenship Education in Japan
Chapter 12 Intercultural and Global Meanings in the Australian Secondary Curriculum: Between Critical Contestations and Minimal Constructions