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Heggart, Keith; Arvanitakis, James; Matthews, Ingrid – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2019
The ambitious project to nationalise the Australian Curriculum has prompted great interest among policymakers, academics and civics teachers in Australian schools. The government-led citizenship education initiative "Discovering Democracy" (1997-2007) comprehensively failed to meet its objectives, most prominently the stated goal of…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Foreign Countries
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Heggart, Keith; Flowers, Rick; Burridge, Nina; Arvanitakis, James – Global Studies of Childhood, 2018
Maximal citizenship educators are committed to advancing an approach to citizenship learning with the following staple features: learner-centred; experiential; problem-and action-oriented; racialised, classed and gendered analysis of power; and strengthening the public sphere and democracy. This type of approach to education shares many…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Citizenship Education, Social Justice, Global Approach