Active citizenship education with young children: key themes, possibilities, and future research directions
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2023
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Harris, P.
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DeZutter, S.
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Source details - Title: International Perspectives on Educating for Democracy in Early Childhood, 2023 / DeZutter, S. (ed./s), Ch.8, pp.105-109
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Driven by a collective vision of local communities and global worlds where children, their families, and communities flourish in and across diverse circumstances, this chapter explores key themes, possibilities, and future research directions germane to active, caring citizenship education in the early years. Active citizenship education is acknowledged as both a subject and a pedagogic approach across the curriculum where embedded practices position children to engage in and lead collective civic praxis for the greater good of communities, humanity, and our planet. Essential to this praxis are the relational contexts in which citizenship education occurs – including tolerance and embracing of, and dialogue across, diversity and difference, accompanied by civic virtues of empathy, compassion, kindness, hope, optimism, trust, respect, reciprocity, civility, and open-mindedness. Collective approaches to active, caring citizenship education are attested to be vital to realizing collective well-being and sustainable futures, and to empower children to fulfill their fundamental ontological rights to thrive in their local and global worlds, with present times to enjoy and futures worlds to which to look forward.
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Copyright 2023 selection and editorial matter, Stacy Lee DeZutter; individual chapters, the contributors