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Rissanen, Inkeri – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This study examines negotiations on Muslims' inclusive citizenship in Finnish and Swedish comprehensive schools. The data include interviews with Muslim parents and Muslim teachers (n = 8 in both countries), who serve as cultural brokers in public schools and mediate negotiations on the terms of inclusion. The study utilizes the notion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Citizenship, Public Schools
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Guo, Shibao – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2010
This commentary article focuses on the theme of "migration and communities." It raises a number of important concerns inherent in the report. The report mistakenly adopts the "sameness" approach, thus negating Britain's unprecedented super-diversity that is the result of increasing migration. It wrongly assumes that all migrants are the same and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Migrants, Differences
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Banks, Cherry A. McGee – Educational Perspectives, 2007
Following the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the nation was thrown into a state of fear and hysteria. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 9066 which resulted in more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry being either interned in relocation centers, drafted, or…
Descriptors: Democracy, War, Japanese Americans, Relocation
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Hartoonian, Michael; Van Scotter, Richard; White, William E. – Social Education, 2007
America evolved out of the principles of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, suggesting that individuals could govern themselves and that people were "endowed" with "unalienable rights" such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these principles, Americans would continue to work on forming a more perfect Union, by…
Descriptors: Citizenship, United States History, Standards, Debate