General Resources

Websites

Citizenship Education Research Network (CERN)

The Citizenship Education Research Network (CERN) is a special interest group within the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC/SCECI), an association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). CERN brings together a group of interested scholars, community-based researchers, policymakers, practitioners and diverse stakeholders to explore meanings of, and processes and approaches to citizenship and citizenship education in Canada. 

Journals

Citizenship Education Research Journal (CERJ)

The Citizenship Education Research Journal (CERJ) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes applied and theoretical research papers related to Citizenship Education that advance scholarly knowledge of the field.

Books

Broom, C.  (Ed.) (2016b).  Youth Civic Engagement in a Globalized World: Citizenship             Education in Comparative Perspective.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Dobson, A.  (2003).  Citizenship and the Environment. Oxford: OUP.

Articles

Bickmore, K. (2014). Citizenship education in Canada: ‘Democratic’ engagement with differences, conflicts and equity issues?. Citizenship Teaching & Learning9(3), 257-278

Cao, X. (2021). Navigating Citizenship Education by Employing Critical Race Theory and Social Constructivism. Citizenship Education Research Journal Revue de recherche sur l’éducation à la citoyenneté, 9(1). https://ojs-o.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CERJ/about

Joshee, R., & Thomas, M. (2017). Multicultural and citizenship education in Canada: Slow peace as an alternative to social cohesion. Citizenship education and global migration: Implications for theory, research, and teaching, 91-106.

Kymlicka, W.  (2011).  Multicultural citizenship within multination states.  Ethnicities 11(3): https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796811407

Sabzalian, L. (2019). The tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and multicultural citizenship education Toward an anticolonial approach to civic education. Theory & Research in Social Education, 47(3), 31.

Sears, A. (2013). Possibilities and problems: Citizenship education in a multinational state: The case of Canada. In Globalization, the nation-state and the citizen (pp. 203-218). Routledge.

Williams, Melissa S., ‘Citizenship as Identity, Citizenship as Shared Fate, and the Functions of Multicultural Education’ in Kevin McDonough, and Walter Feinberg (eds), Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (Oxford, 2003; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Jan. 2005), https://doi.org/10.1093/0199253668.003.0009

Vitikainen, A. (2021) Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances, Citizenship Studies, 25:1, 1-19, DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2020.1837738

Westheimer, Joel and Kahne, Joseph (2004), ‘What kind of Citizen?  The Politics of Educating for Democracy’, American Educational Research Journal,             https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00028312041002237