多元文化国家的多样性及公民教育

Diversity and Citizenship Education in Multicultural Nations

世界各国的种族、民族、文化、语言和宗教的多样性随着新移民的到来不断丰富。这也给公民身份和公民教育这两个概念带来了新的挑战。此研究指出民族国家(nation-states)建构既能适应新人口群体又能保证国家统一之新理念的必要性。文化多元的民族国家需要在统一性和多样性中寻找平衡点。同时,文章还介绍了民族、文化、语言和宗教多样性给公民身份带来的挑战,并强调应该通过改革公民教育使学生不仅能同时具有明显的文化、国家、地区和全球身份,还能获得参与到公民生活中所需的知识与技能。

Immigration is increasing racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistics, and religious diversity in nations around the world, which is challenging existing concepts of citizenship and citizenship education. In this article, I argue that nation-states need to construct novel ideas about citizenship and citizenship education that accommodate new population groups but also foster national unity. Multicultural nation-states need to balance unity and diversity. I describe the challenges to citizenship caused by diversity and argue that citizenship education should be transformed and help students to develop reflective cultural, national, and global identifications and a commitment to take civic action ＇that will make their communities, nation, and the world more democratic and cosmopolitan.