Full Description
Spatial Citizenship Education is an innovative exploration of ways to engage and promote citizenship through a deeper understanding of spatial and geographic perspectives. The authors propose that recognizing the relationship between space and citizenry enables productive and positive engagement with important societal issues such as equity, justice, and environmental stewardship. By providing a historical overview of geography's contribution to citizenship education, including progress made and challenges faced by educational reform movements, this collection shows how geography can contribute to a new type of citizen—one with an enhanced understanding of the world as seen through the key concepts of geography: space, place, scale, power, and human-environment relationships. Through a theoretical explanation of key citizenship ideas, and by providing practical, classroom-based teaching tools, this volume will be essential for geography education researchers and social studies educators alike.
Contents
Preface 1. Conceptualizing Spatial Citizenship 2. Geography as a Social Study: Its Significance for Civic Competence 3. Geography, Capabilities and the Educated Person 4. The Spatial Production and Navigation of Vulnerable Citizens 5. Citizenship Education in a Spatially Enhanced World 6. Rediscovering the Local: Collaborative, Community Maps for Civic Awareness 7. Cultivating Student Citizens: Using Critical Pedagogy of Place 8. Curriculum to Enhance Spatial Thinking, Civic Engagement, and Inquiry through Student-Generated Topics 9. Geotechnologies and the Spatial Citizen 10. Informed Citizenry Starts in the Preschool and Elementary Grades-and With Geography 11. Spatial Citizenship in Secondary Geography Curriculum 12. Spatial Citizenship in Geography/Social Studies Teacher Education List of Contributors
