Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pt. 1. Politics and education. Holocaust education and citizenship : a view from the United Kingdom / Geoffrey Short -- Humanistic values education : personal, interpersonal, social and political dimensions / Dov Darom -- Political learning and values education : problems and possibilities / Ian Davies -- Teachers' idealized identity and immigrant education / Marsha L. Thicksten -- Adult education, community development and cultural identity in Northern Ireland / Tom Lovett -- Women in the entertainment industry : a social and global perspective / Linda Seger -- Harnessing folklore and traditional creativity to promote better understanding between Jewish and Arab children in Israel / Simon Lichman and Keith Sullivan -- Heads I win, tails you lose : the politics of the disabled world / Leonard A. Parkyn. Pt. 2. Education for citizenship. Citizenship education and cultural diversity / Janet Edwards and Ken Fogelman -- Citizenship education for adolescent offenders / Donald Biggs ... [et al.] -- Citizenship education, cultural diversity and the development of thinking skills / Patrick J.M. Costello -- Values education and the humanization of the curriculum / David Aspin and Judith Chapman -- A proposal for moral and citizenship teaching / María Julia Bertomeu and María Victoria Costa -- Education and democratic citizenship : in defence of cosmopolitanism / Penny Enslin -- Beyond the work-related curriculum : citizenship and learning after sixteen / Karen Evans -- Comparing discourses : democratic values, the Coalition of Essential Schools and the eight year study / Tom C. Wilson -- Citizenship and nationhood : the constructions of British and American children / Bruce Carrington and Geoffrey Short -- Value pluralism, democracy and education for citizenship / Don Rowe -- Religious education as democratic education / Fernand Ouellet -- 'The good citizen' : cultural understandings of citizenship and gender amongst a new generation of teachers / Madeleine Arnot ... [et al.] -- Gender and education for citizenship : promoting educational values and values education in Greece / Kiki Deliyanni-Kouimtzis -- The aims of civic education in a multicultural democracy / Jan Steutel and Ben Spiecker.