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Citizenship in Transformation in Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2005

Melanie White
Affiliation:
York University

Extract

Citizenship in Transformation in Canada, Yvonne Hébert, ed., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, pp. 289

One of many surprises found in reading of Citizenship in Transformation in Canada is that the title bears little relation to the substantive content of the book. Although preoccupied with citizenship in a broad sense, on closer inspection it is principally devoted to the exigencies of citizenship education in Canada. From the volume's title, I anticipated that this collection would address a broad range of conceptual and substantive themes in the emerging field of citizenship studies rather than focus almost exclusively on the specific problematic of civic education in Canada. In this vein, while many of the papers in the collection offer a reliable introduction to the changing nature of citizenship education, the editor's opening remarks are remarkably cautious in light of what the title suggests.

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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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