New Journal: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

Posted by on April 29, 2005

New SAGE Journal in 2006: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

Education, Citizenship and Social Justice will provide a strategic forum for international and multi-disciplinary dialogue for all academic educators and educational policy-makers concerned with the meanings and form of citizenship and social justice as these are realised throughout the time spent in educational institutions. The editorial board includes Professor Bruce Muirhead. Essential Reading The journal will be essential reading for those working on the role of education in:

* Social inclusion and exclusion
* Citizenship and civic responsibility
* Ethnic, racial, linguistic and religious diversity
* Refugees and asylum-seekers
* Gender and sexuality
* Poverty and wealth
* Conflict resolution, management and transformation
* Equality policy and practice
* Law and human rights
* The civic role of educational institutions

Aims and Scope
The traditional concept of the nation-state was built on the idea that it embodied the interests of a homogeneous community. This conceptualisation was important when mass education developed from the mid 19th century onwards, as the new educational institutions often became a key mechanism for the promotion of this sense of homogeneity and national identity. Two world wars and the demise of older forms of colonialism in the 20th century saw a reconfiguration of state boundaries, but mass education systems continued to play a key role in promoting social integration and inculcating young people into the imagined communities of nations. In the latter half of the 20th century there developed increased recognition of the actual diversity within all states and equal opportunity became a more widespread social goal. Equality measures have focused on gender, religion, race, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, disability and sexuality. The collapse of the former communist states as well as the swell of the migration of refugee and asylum seeking minorities from conflict societies reopened ethnic divisions that some had presumed closed. All of these developments raise new challenges for education. They raise fundamental questions about the nature of identity and the rights and obligations of citizenship. What role has education to play in this emergent world where the character of society seems to be better cast as diversity and conflict rather than homogeneity and stability? The values and approaches embodied in the curriculum, structures and processes of education provide new areas for examination and analysis.

This will be the terrain of Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. It will have a distinctive, though not exclusive focus on societies and institutions divided by competing (and frequently conflictual) power-interests.

Call for Papers

Papers are invited for early issues of the journal. Manuscript submission information can be found on the journal page at the SAGE website (http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ECSJ) or by contacting Tony Gallagher, Graduate School of Education, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1HL, United Kingdom.
Email: am.gallagher@qub.ac.uk

ISSN: 1746-1979
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First issue March 2006