Full Description
Negotiating Citizenship Education (CE) explores the dynamics, tensions, and space in Chinese socialist CE, focusing on how the political, economic, social, and educational structures in China, as well as individual agency, shape CE curriculum, teaching, and learning.
In contrast to the West, China, as a party-state, has been promoting socialist CE for regime support since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took over the leadership in 1949. However, this version of CE has been challenged by China's economic development, individualization of society, and globalization. This volume traces the historical changes of the Party-state-defined citizenship and CE curriculum in response to social changes. Importantly, drawing upon a qualitative study setting in two high schools in a relatively liberal province in China, it vividly documents how Chinese teachers and students negotiate with official CE discourse in their classroom teaching and learning through a new comprehensive theoretical framework of social structure and agency. Ultimately, it advocates for a reconstruction of the CE curriculum, educational system, and civic environment to cultivate agentic citizens.
This book will be a beneficial read for scholars, academics, and students in the fields of international and comparative education, sociology of education, CE, China studies, and citizenship studies.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Understanding Citizenship Education with Social Structure and Agency Perspectives: Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks Chapter 3: A Historical Review of the Ideological Foundations of Socialist Citizenship and the Evolution of China's Politics Curriculum Chapter 4: Constructing Responsible Socialist Citizens in Official Politics Textbooks Chapter 5: Teaching a Minimal Citizenship Chapter 6: Agentic Citizenship Learning Chapter 7: Reconstructing Citizenship: A Social Structure and Agency Perspective Chapter 8: Conclusion
