This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook is the first of its kind to fully explore the interconnections between social justice and education for citizenship on an international scale. Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of Education, Sociology, Social Policy, Citizenship Studies and Political Science.

Table of Contents

• Editors’ Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Contributor Biographies
• Part I Education for Citizenship and Social Justice: Key Themes and Perspectives
• 1 ‘Race’, ‘Ethnicity’ and Citizenship in Education: Locating Intersectionality and Migration for Social Justice - Dina Kiwan
• 2 Citizenship, Schooling, and ‘Educational Disadvantage’ - Robert Hattam
• 3 Gender, Social Justice and Citizenship in Education: Engaging Space, the Narrative Imagination, and Relationality - Jo-Anne Dillabough
• 4 Sexuality, Gender, Citizenship and Social Justice: Education's Queer Relations - Mary Lou Rasmussen, Rob Cover, Peter Aggleton and Daniel Marshall
• 5 Indigenous Peoples and Indigeneity - Veronica M. H. Tawhai
• 6 Disability and Education: More than Just Access - Heidi Lourens, Emma Louise McKinney and Leslie Swartz
• 7 Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Education for Citizenship and Social Justice - Jody L. McBrien
• 8 Education for Citizenship and Social Justice: The Case of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma - Sarah Cemlyn and Andrew Ryder
• 9 The Australian Reconciliation Process: A Case Study of Community Education - Andrew Gunstone
• 10 Global Human Rights - Liam Gearon
• 11 Postcolonial Insights for Engaging Difference in Educational Approaches to Social Justice and Citizenship - Sharon Stein and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
• 12 Global Justice and Educating for Globally Oriented Citizenship - Andrew Peterson
• 13 Key Issues in Critical Peace Education Theory and Pedagogical Praxis: Implications for Social Justice and Citizenship Education - Michalinos Zembylas and Zvi Bekerman
• 14 The Place of Religion in Education for Citizenship and Social Justice - Alan Sears and Lindsay Herriot
• Part II Country Case Studies
• 15 The Australian Case of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice - John Smyth
• 16 Citizenship Education and Social Participation in an Unequal Society: The Case of Brazil - Ulisses F. Araujo
• 17 Multiculturalism and Its Contradictions: Education for Citizenship and Social Justice in Canada - Abigail B. Bakan
• 18 Social Justice and Education for Citizenship in England - Andrew Peterson and Ian Davies
• 19 Education for Citizenship at School in France: Trajectory, Tensions and Contradictions - Ibrahima Diallo, Mohamed Embarki and Kaouthar Ben Abdallah
• 20 Hong Kong: Social Justice and Education for Justice-Oriented Citizens in a Politicized Era - Shun-Wing Ng and Gail Yuen
• 21 Education for Democracy, Citizenship and Social Justice: The Case of Iceland - Brynja E. Halldórsdóttir, Ólafur Páll Jónsson and Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir
• 22 One Size Fits All? An Exploration of the Teaching of Civics in Israel from the Perspective of Social Justice - Aviv Cohen
• 23 México: Educating Citizens for Social Justice in a Highly Unequal Country - Leonel Pérez-Expósito
• 24 The Political Rhetoric and Everyday Realities of Citizenship in New Zealand Society and Schools - Martin Thrupp
• 25 Education for Citizenship Education and Social Justice in Northern Ireland - Tony Gallagher and Gavin Duffy
• 26 Social Justice and Citizenship in Scottish Education - Sheila Riddell
• 27 South Africa: The Struggle for Social Justice and Citizenship in South African Education - Crain Soudien
• 28 Citizenship Education Versus Reality: The Facts in Spain - Concepción Naval and Elena Arbués
• 29 Citizenship Education and the Colonial Contract: The Elusive Search for Social Justice in US Education - Zeus Leonardo and Maliheh M. Vafai