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Genre/Form: | Budapest (1994) Conference papers and proceedings Congresses |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Families as educators for global citizenship. Aldershot : Ashgate, ©2001 (OCoLC)605536505 Online version: Families as educators for global citizenship. Aldershot : Ashgate, ©2001 (OCoLC)607736673 |
Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith A Myers-Walls; Péter Somlai; Robert N Rapoport |
ISBN: | 185972356X 9781859723562 |
OCLC Number: | 45437466 |
Notes: | " ... based on papers presented at a symposium held in Budapest in December 1994"--Preface. |
Description: | xxxi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Preface / Robert N. Rapoport -- pt. 1. Families as Educators for Global Citizenship -- 1. How families teach their children about the world / Judith A. Myers-Walls -- 2. Global citizenship: An essay on its contradictions / Peter Somlai -- 3. Families and globalization: A new social contract and agenda for research / Constance A. Flanagan -- 4. Families as educators for global citizenship: Additional contributions and reflections / Jens Qvortrup, Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Wilfried Dumon / [and others] -- pt. 2. Families, Modernization, and Globalization -- 5. Negotiation strategies in modern families: What does it mean for global citizenship? / Manuela du Bois-Reymond -- 6. The impact of modernization on elder-care: The case of Taiwan / Hsiang-Ming Justine Kung and Chin-Chun Yi -- 7. Transformations of family norms: Parents' expectations of their children's family life style / Hideki Watanabe -- 8. Task sharing and sex role attitudes in Greek returnees: A combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal data / Despina Sakka and Maria Dikaiou -- 9. Globalization, community violence and family: An anthropologist's account from Northern Ghana / Peter Skalnik -- 10. Reflections from a war zone: A partial essay and memorial tribute / Andjelka Milic -- 11. Families, modernization, and globalization: Additional contributions and reflections / Peter Skalnik, Zuzana Kusa and Natalia Lakiza-Sachuk / [and others] -- pt. 3. Families as Educators -- 12. Hungarian adolescents' attitudes toward their future, peace, and the environment / Olga Toth -- 13. The tradition and change of family education in mainland China / Dai Keijing and Judith A. Myers-Walls -- 14. Families as environmental educators in the Sahel / Ousmane Thioune and Judith A. Myers-Walls -- 15. War, mothers, and a girl with braids: Involvement of mothers' peace groups in the national discourse in Israel / Yael Azmon -- 16. Religion, spirituality, and the family: Challenges for global citizenship / Jacqueline Haessly and Judith A. Myers-Walls -- 17. The parents' role in educating about war and peace / Judith A. Myers-Walls -- 18. Families as educators: Additional contributions and reflections / Willy LaHaye, Furugh Switzer and Margaret Obondo / [et al.]. |
Responsibility: | edited by Judith A. Myers-Walls, Péter Somlai, with Robert N. Rapoport. |
Abstract:
This text describes ways in which families teach their children about the nature of the world in which they live. The volume explores globalization and aims to identify patterns of family life and to present them in relation to the challenges and opportunities made possible by this process.
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Related Subjects:(17)
- World citizenship -- Congresses.
- Families -- Congresses.
- Globalization -- Congresses.
- World citizenship -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
- Education -- Parent participation -- Congresses.
- Wereldburgerschap.
- Internationalisatie.
- Opvoeding.
- Gezin.
- Familienerziehung
- Internationaler Vergleich
- Kongress
- Weltbürger
- Education -- Parent participation.
- Families.
- Globalization.
- World citizenship.