Training for Model Citizenship

Training for Model Citizenship
Author: Molly Sundberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113758422X

This book explores the state in post-genocide Rwanda through an ethnography of a state-run civic education program and everyday forms of government. In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Since then, this ideal has been pursued through remote training camps, village assemblies, and daily government practices. Based on ethnographic research of the life and workings of Itorero camps and the day-to-day administration of a local neighborhood in Kigali, this book investigates how such a pursuit has come to affect Rwandans’ relation to the state and what it may tell us about modern forms of authoritarian rule.

Producing Good Citizens

Producing Good Citizens
Author: Amy J. Wan
Publisher: ProQuest
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN: 9780549342243

In the field of rhetoric and composition, scholars commonly mobilize the concept of the citizen in calls for critical pedagogy, letter-to-the-editor assignments, service learning, and in discussions of the public sphere. Yet the desire to create participatory citizens does not often move beyond prevailing rights and participation models in which students need only enact good citizenship in order to become a full citizen. As a result, the terms and boundaries of citizenship are often left unexamined.

Digital citizenship education handbook

Digital citizenship education handbook
Author: Janice Richardson
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9287189366

Being online, well-being online, and rights online: information, tools and good practice Digital citizenship competences define how we act and interact online. They comprise the values, attitudes, skills and knowledge and critical understanding necessary to responsibly navigate the constantly evolving digital world, and to shape technology to meet our own needs rather than to be shaped by it. The Digital citizenship education handbook offers information, tools and good practice to support the development of these competences in keeping with the Council of Europe’s vocation to empower and protect children, enabling them to live together as equals in today’s culturally diverse democratic societies, both on- and offline. The Digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers and parents, education decision makers and platform providers alike. It describes in depth the multiple dimensions that make up each of ten digital citizenship domains, and includes a fact sheet on each domain providing ideas, good practice and further references to support educators in building the competences that will stand children in good stead when they are confronted with the challenges of tomorrow’s digital world. The Digital citizenship education handbook is consistent with the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and compatible for use with the Internet literacy handbook.