Helen Haste, PhD, Professor Emerita in Psychology, University of Bath, UK, was Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education 2003–2018 where she led a program supporting doctoral research on civic education. She has published extensively on cultural and social factors in moral, civic and political identity. Janine Bempechat, EdD, is Clinical Professor of Human Development, Boston University. She has published extensively on family, cultural, and school influences in the development of student motivation and achievement in low-income children and youth. Her research has been supported by the Spencer Foundation and the W.T. Grant Foundation.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: New Civics, New Citizens: Critical, Competent and Responsible AgentsHelen Haste and Janine BempechatPART 1: Domain 1: Civic Identities and Forms of Participation1 Is It Radical to Be Kind? New Civic Education in the Era of Young People’s DissentBenjamin Bowman2 What Does ‘Belonging’ Mean? The Goals and Tensions of Dual IdentityPinar Burcu Güner3 Not Everyone Thinks It’s Bad: A Study of Teenagers’ Attitudes towards CyberbullyingArvid Nagel, Horst Biedermann and Fritz Oser4 Wasteful, Wary, or Wishful: Chinese Teachers’ Perceptions of Students’ Civic DutiesSiwen Zhang MineroPART 2: Domain 2: What Are the Sources of Concepts, Discourses, and Definitions?5 An Unexpected Moral Lesson from High School Science among Chinese AdolescentsChen Chen6 The Rural-Urban Divide and the Making of the Chinese Citizen: Past and PresentXin Xiang7 The Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Citizenship Education: Ordinary Ethics of Student Government in Chinese ClassroomsLiu Jiang8 Conference of the Oppressed: Lecture-Performing the Science Poster PresentationAlen AgaronovPART 3: Domain 3: Contemporary Debates and Controversial Issues around Civic and Socio-Political Questions9 Abnormal Justice and School ClosureJacob Fay10 Anti-Discrimination as Institutional New Civics, or In Loco Parentis by a Different Name?Matthew Patrick Shaw11 Reciprocity in Practice: Using Deliberative Democratic Theory to Reframe and Improve Teacher Professional DevelopmentJames Noonan12 Locating Empowerment and Technical Intuition in How We Frame U.S. Civic EducationErhardt GraeffPART 4: Domain 4: Educational Practice and Pedagogy13 Cultivating Democratic Climates in Primary School Classrooms in Colombia: Pastors, Radical Democrats, Semi-Democrats, and TyrantsSanjay K. Nanwani14 The ABC s of Citizenship: Why Social Skills Matter for Preschoolers’ Early Math and (Later) Civic SkillsBonnie B. Mackintosh15 How Mock Elections May (Not) Promote Thick Democratic EngagementIsolde de Groot16 ‘Beyond Two-Sided Stories’: Multi-Perspectivity in History and Civic LearningEverardo Perez-ManjarrezIndex

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