Knowing our place children talking about power, identity and citizenship /

• Main Author: Gill, Judith, 1942-
• Other Authors: Howard, Sue.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Children > Attitudes. > Australia; Social learning.; Identity (Psychology) in children > Australia.; Civics, Australian.; Children.; Identity (Psychology) in children.; Education.; EDUCATION > Aims & Objectives.; Electronic books.
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Knowing Our Place examines the way in which children view their world. It poses questions of citizenship and how children come to a sense of belonging in their community of nation, family, classroom and school. The book describes and analyses the responses of more than 400 children to a series of op...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The pebble in the pond: Children's constructions of power, politics and democratic citizenship; 2 Under the power lines: Reflections on/of schooling, civics education and citizenship; 3 'It's like we're a normal way and everyone else is different': Australian children's constructions of citizenship and national identity; 4 Somewhere to call home? Schooling and a sense of place and belonging in an increasingly globalised world; 5 Revisioning the social: Young Australians and the rural/urban divide.