International Perspectives on Educating for Democracy in Early Childhood: Recognizing Young Children as Citizens

This book explores new directions for research on young children as active, engaged citizens of classrooms, highlighting innovative methods to explore diverse conceptualizations of citizenship, children's understandings, and effective practice. It establishes citizenship enactment in early childhood education as a robust and growing research area with the potential to shape research, policy, and practice worldwide.

Format: Hardback
Length: 346 pages
Publication date: 08 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book brings together esteemed and emerging scholars from across the globe to shed light on fresh avenues for research on young children as active and engaged citizens within classroom environments. The volume is organized into three distinct sections, each employing innovative methodologies to explore diverse conceptualizations of citizenship, children's understandings, and effective practices. By challenging the traditional notion of children as citizens-in-preparation, the book delves into the ways in which young children can and do actively engage as citizens, and how early childhood educational settings function as civic forums.

Chapters within the volume examine the child-as-citizen in the context of various issues such as gender, class, race, tribal status, and linguistic diversity. These chapters ultimately illustrate how sociocultural processes within early years settings can be harnessed to foster the development of democratic dispositions and skills.

This book establishes citizenship enactment in early childhood education as a robust and rapidly expanding research domain with the potential to profoundly influence research, policy, and practice on a global scale. It will captivate scholars and academics with a keen interest in citizenship education, democracy, and early childhood education, as well as postgraduate students in teacher education and those engaged in international and comparative education more broadly.

Chapter 20 of this book is graciously made available as a freely downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, subject to a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Weight: 830g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032135007