Citizenship: The Civic Ideal in World History, Politics and Education Derek Heater
This book describes, analyses and interprets the topic of citizenship in a global context as it has developed historically, in its variations as a political concept and status, and the ways in which citizens have been and are being educated for that status. The topic is complex and in attempt to provide the reader with a manageable single volume, this book is divided into three parts: History, Analysis and Synthesis. The third part introduced, when the book was first published, and notion of 'multiple citizenship'.
The historical survey not only covers the range from the Greeks to the twentieth century, but reveals the legacies which each era passed on to later centuries. Similarly, the part devoted to analysis not only explains the feeling of citizenship, what political citizenship entails and the nature of citizenship as a status, but also tackles the issue of whether there can be a generally accepted, holistic understanding of the idea(l). The third part attempts to provide a solution. For this edition an epilogue has been written to demonstrate how vigorous the academic and pedagogical debates on the subject are, and how alive the practical matters are relating to the status since 1990. Anyone interested in the topical subject of citizenship and wishing to read a single, thorough treatment will find this unique book interesting and valuable; those who know the highly-regarded previous edition will welcome this new, fully revised edition. Derek Heater was Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at the then Brighton Polytechnic, and was co-founder of the Politics Association. He has taught History at Secondary and Higher education level and is the author of a number of books on citizenship.