CIVIC AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN CONTESTED AND DIVIDED SOCIETIES

• cours - matière potentielle : curriculum
• cours - matière potentielle : performance

CIVIC AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN CONTESTED AND DIVIDED SOCIETIES Alan Smith UNESCO Chair, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Abstract This paper considers the challenges of developing civic and citizenship education within a political environment where the status of the territory is contested. In particular, the case of Northern Ireland is examined. For many centuries Ireland was subject to English rule. When an independent Republic of Ireland was established in 1921, the island was partitioned and the northern part remained part of the United Kingdom.

• multinational curriculum development
• fundamental questions about the future
• social relations
• diversity
• citizenship education
• social capital
• political system
• society
• groups
• organizations