Democracy in Schools, Citizenschip and Global Concern
A part of the series DPU Didaktiske studier (18)
Edited by
Knud Jensen
Ole B. Larsen and
Stephen Walker
With contributions by
Pam Gilbert
Rob Gilbert,
Juhani Hytönen,
Knud Jensen,
Per Flemming Jørgensen,
Vladimir A. Karakovsky,
Susanne V. Knudsen,
Helena Kurakina,
Ole B. Larsen,
John Mcnally,
Matti Piirimaa,
A. Rogacheva,
Karsten Schnack,
Tom Temple,
Lembit Türnpuu and
Stephen Walker
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About the book
At the international level we detect some new trends in the relations between state and school. In some areas, a near total decentralisation of schooling is going on with more influence to parents and students. In other areas citizens deal with schisms in schools as ideological institutions. In some areas, economic and material conditions turn attention towards basic qualifications rather than education for democratic citizenship. The transformation of state theory continues and forces a reconsideration of issues about citizen's rights and what is becoming a continuing process of negotiations about duties, possibilities and legislative matters. - The conference was organised as a series of workshops which were concerned with an exploration of these items for a dialogue. The book report that dialogue.
Cecilie Harrits
MA in literature and art history and a trained teacher with main subjects in Danish and special education. Cecilie's responsibilities are education, psychology (including two new series, Pædagogisk rækkevidde and Didaktiske studier) and history of art. She has previously worked with communication, development and knowledge sharing. Before she came to the press in the fall of 2014, she was a teacher in elementary school.
