Citizenship and Social Movements


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Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria. This volume points to the complex relationships that influence mobilization and social movements in the South, suggesting that previous theories have underplayed the influence of state power and elite dominance in the government and in NGOs. As the contributors to this book clearly show, understanding the role of the state in relation to social movements is critical to determining when collective action can fulfil the promise of bringing the rights of the marginalized to the fore.




Teoría crítica de la ciudadanía democrática


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El creciente influjo de la teoría republicana de la democracia ha propiciado que la educación para la ciudadanía se haya convertido en el tema de nuestro tiempo. En efecto, el foco de atención de la política democrática empieza a pasar del diseño liberal, centrado en los partidos políticos y en las instituciones de la representación y de los gobernantes, al diseño republicano, que enfatiza la formación democrática de los ciudadanos, tanto en sus aspectos cognitivos (derechos, deberes, instituciones) como en los prácticos (participación y control). Este paso sucede en un sentido doble. Por un lado, la participación pública vuelve a considerarse indispensable para la madurez política de la persona. Por otro, se instaura la convicción de que la garantía real de que instituciones, diputados y gobernantes van a cumplir fielmente con su deber democrático radica en una ciuda- danía activa y exigente. El objetivo principal de este libro es construir críticamente la teoría de la ciudadanía democrática. La obra se abre con una introducción histórica que ocupa los dos primeros capítulos y quiere ofrecer el contexto indispensable para la inteligibilidad del concepto de ciudadanía: empezando por el mundo greco-romano, hasta las vicisitudes de la herencia republicana en Occidente, el triunfo del modelo liberal representativo y sus ulteriores reformas. El tercer capítulo repasa críticamente las principales teorías contemporáneas de la ciudadanía (liberal, comunitarista, neo-republicana), con especial énfasis en las más recientes (la «multicultural», el «patriotismo constitucional» o el «cosmopolitismo cívico»). El cuarto delinea la propuesta personal del autor que postula una síntesis en la que la ciudadanía transnacional es asumida y plenificada por la ciudadanía transcultural. En el capítulo quinto se incide sobre el papel que desempeña la educación cívica para asumir de modo reflexivo y crítico los derechos/deberes democráticos. La conclusión recapitula e insiste en la vertiente educativa y práctica de la educación para la ciudadanía.




Rethinking the History of Education


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Drawing on a wide variety of traditions and methods in historical studies, from the humanities and social sciences both, this volume considers the questions, methods, goals, and frameworks historians of education from a wide variety of countries use to create the study of the history of education.










Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education


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Research on history education and historical thinking is becoming increasingly relevant internationally. The need for a renewal of history education is not only justified by the epistemology of history itself, but also by the demand for a methodological change in education in general, making students active protagonists in the construction of their learning and based on the development of competencies. Further study on the potential use of gamification within social studies and humanities education is required to understand its benefits and challenges. Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education proposes and analyzes gamification as a pedagogical innovation that can enable the renewal of the teaching and learning process of history, facilitating the active learning of historical thinking concepts while influencing students' conceptions of history as a discipline and as a school subject. Covering key topics such as historical thinking, social sciences, video games, and mobile learning, this reference work is ideal for historians, policymakers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.








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Democracy in Mexico


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Feminist Critical Literacy


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This book explores, as one of the priorities of the feminist agenda in the 21st century, feminist education and awareness in pre-service and in-service teacher training. Although feminism is constantly present in political discourse and social media, it is not examined sufficiently in the classroom. This situation means that students approach feminism through media culture, lacking the feminist knowledge necessary to teach disciplinary knowledge from the feminist perspective. Feminist theory, as a critical theory, provides teacher training based on the formation of critical-creative thinking and the resolute interpretation of the relevant social issues of the world in which we live. We understand the process of 'Feminist Critical Literacy' outlined here as a plan to find a feminist utopia, specifically, in the training of teachers from all disciplines, although more oriented towards the Social and Human Sciences and Artistic Education through the use of multimodality as a pedagogical approach. If future teachers do not develop feminist cognitive lenses, they will not be prepared to teach women's experiences and gender perspectives to their own students. This would then contribute to the endurance of an androcentric culture where there are no women's models that can serve as a stimulus or be historical references for female students. Our idea of Feminist Critical Literacy stems from feminist literary criticism and critical literacy. Feminist Critical Literacy is defined as the hermeneutical process of suspicion (mainstream culture) and of performative deconstruction of multimodal texts (didactic produsage), the purpose of which is to generate feminist consciousness in teachers from an intersectional perspective; through the acquisition of critical, creative, empathetic, aesthetic, and empowering competencies that contribute to the formation of a fair, equal, and equitable glocal citizenship.