The First Step in Addressing Inequalities. A Book Review of Beyond Us versus Them: Citizenship Education with Hard to Reach Learners in Europe

Authors

Monica B. Glina, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Abstract

In Beyond Us versus Them: Citizenship Education with Hard to Reach Learners in Europe, Kakos, Müller-Hofstede, and Ross (2016) assembled a volume of contributions from researchers and scholars that offered insight into how we might begin to understand “hard-to-reach” populations and suggestions for facilitating citizenship education for, within, and amongst these populations. The volume offered ways to redefine a traditionally and historically imperialistic approach to “hard-to-reach” populations and argued for “build[ing] power with them” (Hargreaves & Fullan, 1998, p. 44) by listening, reflection, and responsiveness over projection, dictation, and mandates as the ways in which we both understand “hard-to-reach” populations and explore possible interventions.

Recommended Citation

Glina, M. B. (2018). The First Step in Addressing Inequalities. A Book Review of Beyond Us versus Them: Citizenship Education with Hard to Reach Learners in Europe. Democracy and Education, 26 (1), Article 15.
Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol26/iss1/15