Families as Educators for Global Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9781138734357 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 212 str.

Judith A. Myers-Walls; Peter Somlai

Opis

First published in 2001, this is an international volume exploring how culture, politics, religion and world events have altered the attitudes, behaviours and well-being of families and outlines some of the approaches that families have taken.

Spis treści

Families as Educators for Global Citizenship: How families teach their children about the world, Judith A. Myers-Walls; Global citizenship: an essay on its contradictions, Péter Somlai; Families and globalization: a new social contract and agenda for research, Constance A. Flanagan; Families as educators for global citizenship: additional contributions and reflections, Jens Qvortrup, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wilfreid Dumon, Lynne Chisholm, Constance A. Flanagan and Robert N. Rapoport. Families, Modernization, and Globalization: Negotiation strategies in modern families: what does it mean for global citizenship?, Manuela du Bois-Reymond; The impact of modernization on elder-care: the case of Taiwan, Hsiang-Ming Justine Kung and Chin-ChunYi; Transformations of family norms: parents’ expectations of their children’s family life style, Hideki Watanabe; Task sharing and sex role attitudes in Greek returnees: a combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal data, Despina Sakka and Maria Dikaiou; Globalization, community violence and family: an anthropologist’s account from Northern Ghana, Peter Skalník; Reflections from a war zone: a partial essay and memorial tribute, Andjelka Milic; Families, modernization and globalization: additional contributions and reflections, Peter Skalník, Zuzana Kusá, Natalia Lakiza-Sachuk, Evguenia Atchildieva, Judith A. Myers-Walls, Yael Azmon, Jens Qvortrup, Raquel Cohen-Orantes and Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Families as Educators: Hungarian adolescents’ attitudes toward their future, peace and the environment, Olga Tóth; The tradition and change of family education in mainland China, Dai Keijing with Judith A. Myers-Walls; Families as environmental educators in the Sahel, Ousmane Thioune with Judith A. Myers-Walls; War, mothers, and a girl with braids: involvement of mothers’ peace groups in the national discourse in Israel, Yael Azmon; Religion, spirituality and the family: challenges for global citizenship, Jacqueline Haessl

O autorze

Judith A. Myers-Walls, Purdue University, Indiana, USA Péter Somlai, University of Eötvös, Hungary Robert N. Rapoport, formerly of the Institute of Family and Environmental Research, UK