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Education Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Cohesion

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Across the globe there has been, since the early 1990s, increased interest in the role of citizenship education in creating cohesive societies, by both national policymakers and international organisations (Reid et al., 2009). This chapter explores the tensions within national education policies and specifically citizenship education policies between promoting identity, belonging and social cohesion at the national level and realising a sense of cosmopolitan citizenship which might support global cooperation, recognising our sense of interdependence. One aim is to make explicit some assumptions about learners which underpin policies and explore the meanings of terms such as diversity, citizenship and community cohesion within education policy.

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  2. Durham University, UK

    Mark McCormack

  3. University of Southampton, UK

    Kalwant Bhopal

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Osler, A. (2013). Education Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Cohesion. In: Brooks, R., McCormack, M., Bhopal, K. (eds) Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137269881_3

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