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Diversity and citizenship education in multicultural nations 1
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Banks, James A. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Migration within and across nation-states is a worldwide phenomenon. The movement of peoples across national boundaries is as old as the nation-state itself. However, never before in the history of the world has the movement of diverse racial, cultural, ethnic, religious, and language groups within and across nation-states been as numerous and rapid, or raised such complex and difficult questions about citizenship, human rights, democracy, and education. Many worldwide trends and developments are challenging the notion of educating students to function in one nation-state. These trends include the ways in which people are moving back and forth across national borders, the rights of movement permitted by the European Union, and the rights codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.In nation-states that embrace W. Kymlicka's idea of multicultural citizenship, immigrant and minority groups can retain important aspects of their languages and cultures as well as have full citizenship rights. Citizenship education must be transformed in the 21st century because of the deepening diversity in nations around the world. The community cultures and languages of students from diverse groups were to be eradicated in the assimilationist conception of citizenship education that existed in nations such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom prior to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Diversity and unity should coexist in a delicate balance in democratic multicultural nations. Only when a nation-state is unified around a set of democratic values such as justice and equality can it protect the rights of cultural, ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups and enable them to experience cultural democracy and freedom. Multicultural citizenship and cultural democracy are essential in global age. Book Name: Routledge international handbook of multicultural education research in Asia Pacific |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2014-0-32745-X&isbn=9781351179959&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351179959-2 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-03-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Routledge International Handbook of Multicultural Education Research in Asia Pacific Cultural Studies Ethnic Studies Function Diversity Movement Democracy Languages Religious Multicultural Citizenship Education Nation State |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
