Canada and Citizenship Education
- ISBN-10
- 0920315372
- ISBN-13
- 9780920315378
- Category
- Citizenship Study and teaching Canada
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Canadian Education Association
- Author
- Canadian Education Association
Description
This document contains papers on the following topics: Canadian citizenship for a progressive state; the current status of teaching about citizenship in Canadian elementary and secondary schools; Canadian society in the year 2000; the Charter and the teaching human rights and citizenship; the Charter and legal literacy; literacy for citizenship; ways of teaching values; theories and attitudes towards political education; thoughts on education for global citizenship; role-play and citizenship education; co-operative learning; and an exercise in simulations and citizenship education.
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