Product Description

This book defines the contribution that geography makes to citizenship and democracy education, and which indeed it must make if citizenship education is to be effective in a crowded curriculum.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1021615 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
'Lambert and Machon's [book] is a timely and considered contribution...the book provides chapters setting the background to citizenship in geography education from a stimulating range of different viewpoints...[it] is an essential read for those at the intersection of citizenship and geography in secondary schools.' - Angus Willson, The Development Education Journal

From the Back Cover

Secondary schools are now obliged to teach 'citizenship', and geography has been pinpointed as one of the key subjects through which citizenship can be taught. This is the first book of its kind to lead geography teachers through this new and challenging development in the curriculum.

Citizenship Through Secondary Geography reveals the potential of geography to engage with citizenship. It provides:

* theoretical signposts in the form of short, digestible explanations for key ideas such as racism, values, identity, community and social exclusion
* a number of inset activities 'For Further Thinking'
* a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through geography
* practical teaching suggestions.

All the contributions to this valuable book point to the capacity of geography to engage with citizenship, values, education and people - environment decision-making, on scales that range from the local to the global. It offers positive and direct ways to become involved in the thinking that must underpin any worthwhile citizenship education.