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This important book offers a more inclusive approach to preparing students to be responsible participants in a democratic society. Civic education generally operates through the lens of citizenship, where students learn what good citizenship is and what good citizens do. Yet the citizenship lens fails to identify the wide range of school children and their families who participate in economic, political, and social life. Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration examines the exclusionary aspects of citizenship and offers democratic societies an alternative approach that includes all long-term residents regardless of citizenship and immigration status. Banks reimagines a civic education curriculum that gives students the knowledge and skills they will need to assist the United States in becoming a more perfect union.Book Features: A brief overview of the history of civic education and why citizenship status and immigration status should be explicitly addressed. An examination of the economic, political, and social forces shaping immigration law. A new way to conceptualize membership based on three principles: popular sovereignty, participation, and the jus nexi principle. Classroom activities and discussion questions to help civic educators incorporate the idea of citizenship boundaries into their curriculum.

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The biggest contribution of this book is its consideration of the educational implications of a narrow focus on legal citizenship and the responsibility of educators to expand conceptions of rightful membership. --Harvard Educational Review Banks effectively highlights the diverse struggles of historically marginalized groups in the United States in a way that threads these seemingly separate struggles. --Comparative Education Review Living up to its title, this text facilitates compelling consideration of civic education theory and what expanded conceptualization of citizenship means for practice. --Teachers College Record

Living up to its title, this text facilitates compelling consideration of civic education theory and what expanded conceptualization of citizenship means for practice. --Teachers College Record

""Angela Banks has written a book that proposes powerful concepts and questions for the civic education curriculum."" --Multicultural Perspectives ""In addition to providing an interdisciplinary rationale for an approach to civics education that is grounded in the necessary interrogation of exclusionary boundaries in taken-for-granted principles such as those commonly accepted about citizenship, Banks incisively demonstrates how these unquestioned democratic ideals also mask racism, classism, and other forms of prejudice and discrimination."" --Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies ""The biggest contribution of this book is its consideration of the educational implications of a narrow focus on legal citizenship and the responsibility of educators to expand conceptions of rightful membership."" --Harvard Educational Review ""Banks effectively highlights the diverse struggles of historically marginalized groups in the United States in a way that threads these seemingly separate struggles."" --Comparative Education Review ""Living up to its title, this text facilitates compelling consideration of civic education theory and what expanded conceptualization of citizenship means for practice."" --Teachers College Record

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Angela M. Banks is the Charles J. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University.

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