Are we, as educators, preparing students to be effective citizens in a society that no longer is?

"Rethinking Citizenship" argues that recent technological shifts and changes have fundamentally altered society. Today's technological change means a difference in the very definition of society and is associated increasingly with the possibilities, problematics, and interpretations of globalization and of neoliberal and neoconservative cultural economics, some of today's most significant and contested concepts.

With respect to critical pedagogy, these shifts present both problems and...