This text looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. It reviews theories of citizenship and education and challenges educators to think more politically about education.

This important book looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. The chapters cover theories of citizenship and education and the transition from the welfare state to the neoliberal state, and draw on Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson, Kant, Hegel, Marx and other writers such as C. Mouffe and C. Pateman to outline contemporary approaches to multiculturalism in education and citizenship.