At one level, this book examines the inventory of global issues, dimensions,
and debates discussed by educators, curriculum practitioners, and researchers
in two U.S. journals, Social Education and The Social Studies, since 1990. At
another level, the study explores the conceptualizations, metaphors, and
frames through which the global is rendered. The texts analyzed in this
qualitative study are regardded as a disocurse community unified by a
common focus on how to conceive and educate about globalization. For the
scholars and practitioners in social studies education and global...

As liberal democracies include increasingly diverse and multifaceted populations, the longstanding debate about the role of the state in religiouseducation and the place of religion in public life seems imperative now more than ever.