65.012 - The Quest for Justice Through Civic Education in Multicultural Nations

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Global migration and the increasing racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity in nation-states around the world are causing educators to rethink how civic education can help vulnerable and victimized groups attain justice. The worldwide ethnic revitalization movements are challenging assimilationist notions of citizenship education and insisting that diverse cultures be reflected in the school, college, and university curriculum. In this session, civic educators in different parts of the world will share perspectives, issues, theory, research, and strategies for implementing citizenship education courses and programs in schools that will facilitate the structural inclusion and quests for justice by students from diverse ethnic, racial, linguistic, and religious groups into their nation-states.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• James A. Banks, University of Washington - Seattle

• Cherry A. McGee Banks, University of Washington - Bothell

Papers

• Civic Education and the Quest for Justice in Multicultural Nations - James A. Banks, University of Washington - Seattle

• Contrasting approaches to justice and citizenship education in two European nations: Norway and the UK - Audrey Helen Osler, University College of South East Norway

• The Struggle for Justice and Civic Equality in the United States - Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• The Black Struggle for Justice and Citizenship Rights in Brazil - Petronilha Beatriz Goncalves e Silva, Federal University of Sao Carlos

• Citizenship Education and the Quest for Justice in the Arab World - Muhammad Faour, Phoenicia University

• The Civic Marginalization of Multicultural Students in Korea - Yun-Kyung Cha, Hanyang University

Discussant

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison