Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific: Concepts and Issues (CERC Studies in Comparative Education)

This book is a landmark in citizenship and citizenshipeducation discourse. It combines conceptual debates with case studieson the question whether the notion of Asian Citizenship can beestablished, and if yes, what its research agenda would be. The bookcontains polemic discussion, empirical data analysis, consultancyreflections, and descriptions of citizenship education in Asian andPacific countries. Its themes include citizenship paradigms, democratization, patriotism, social tolerance, globalization andinformation society, and colonialism. The volume explores variousperspectives on citizenship, including Confucian, Islamic, humanist, global, indigenous, cultural, political, and comparative. The bookcovers a wide range of countries and regions, including China, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan and Vanuatu.