Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching

Citizenship Education and Global Migration: Implications for Theory, Research, and Teaching by Banks, James A.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780935302646.

This book describes theory, research, and practice that can be used in civic education courses and programs to help students from marginalized and minoritized groups in nations around the world attain a sense of structural integration and political efficacy within their nation-states, develop civic participation skills, and reflective cultural, national, and global identities. The chapters in Parts 2 through 6 contain profiles of effective teacher of civic education who work with students from diverse groups and use visionary and engaging instructional strategies and interventions to foster structural inclusion, civic efficacy, and civic engagement and participation. This book includes chapters that describe the problems that 16 nations around the world are experiencing trying to create and implement effective civic education programs for students from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic groups and case studies of effective ways that teachers and other educators are working to resolve these problems.