Possibilities for critical democratic citizenship education in Pakistan:  Educators' concepts' of conflict education.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780494210864
Subjects: Citizenship -- Pakistan.; Democracy -- Pakistan.; Political rights -- Pakistan.; Conflict management -- Pakistan.
Description: This study examines a citizenship education course in Karachi, Pakistani based on document analysis and interviews with selected Pakistani educators. The Citizenship and Conflict Resolution sections of the same course presented contrasting critical and liberal-democratic notions of citizenship. Participants' understandings of conflict management and citizenship ranged between critical and liberal-democratic. Participants proposed educational strategies, while valuing student/citizens' involvement in decision-making strategies, often emphasized changing individual students' behaviour, a passive notion of citizenship and adherence to authority rather than systemic change in the school. At the same time, some participants (especially those marginalized by gender or religious minority status) recognized systemic inequity as conflict. This exploration of one citizenship course, and educators' specific experiences and views, illuminates possibilities for critical democratic citizenship education in Pakistan.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1166.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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