Local Citizenship in the Global Arena

Sally Findlow is Senior Lecturer in Education at Keele University, UK. Prior to coming to Keele she had spent her working life (and some studying life) in Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

• Introduction 1. The policy problem: finding a meaningful frame of reference for citizenship education – the UK example 2. Locating citizenship: from the Modernist education project, through regionalism to border-crossing 3. Educating for citizenship as radical democracy 4. Education for community citizenship: equality and critical multiculturalism 5. Education and protest citizenship 6. Feminist citizenship: education and change in gendered societies 7. Ecological stakeholder citizenship: educating for sustainability Final thoughts: the educational mandate for boundary-crossing in an interdependent world

‘In this challenging, accessible and important contribution to scholarship, Sally Findlow argues for a reconceptualisation of citizenship education, based on a powerful critique that draws on and synthesises political, feminist, ecological and multicultural perspectives and literatures. She is to be congratulated on bringing together discussions of citizenship education policies across schooling and higher education seeking to derive 'a model of citizenship that involves localism, stakeholding, cosmopolitanism and critical multiculturalism.’Hugh Starkey, Professor of Citizenship and Human Rights Education, UCL Institute of Education, UK‘Sally Findlow extends the debate on what education for citizenship and social justice need to look like in our global age, beginning by critiquing citizenship education policy and practice in England, and highlighting tensions in the policies of the UK government, and in the professional and non-governmental organisations set up to support teachers in England. She extends her discussion to encompass a wide-range of international examples and her research on women, equality, and citizenship in various Gulf States. This is an engaging and sometimes provocative text.’Audrey Osler, Professor Emerita and founder of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education, University of Leeds, UK