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SELECTED INTERNATIONAL REFERENCES FOR
CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION POLICY FORMATION FOR NEW ZEALAND

The chairman of Parliament’s select committee inquiry into New Zealand’s 2004 local government elections, Tim Barnett MP, asked the Parliamentary Library for international Parliamentary related references to citizenship education.

Most of the documentation can be viewed through websites citied below. The documents have references to specialists and websites which may assist further inquiry into appropriate citizenship education options for New Zealand.

Tim Barnett requested information on
A: civics education/citizenship education in:
1) Scotland
2) England
3) Canada
4) Scandanaia
5) One or two European countries,
B: Public education programmes conducted by national/state Parliaments in the same countries, and
C: links between A and B.

Documents assembled included:
Citizenship Education at School in Europe
www.eurydice.org/documents/citizenship/en/civicsen.pdf

Citizenship Education: an International Comparison
www.inca.org.uk/pdf/citizenship_no_intro.pdf

Citizenship Education in Schools in Europe
http://eu2004.minocw.nl/docs/en/citizenship_edu_europe.pdf

Citizenship Education
www.cea-ace.ca/media/en/citizenship_education.pdf

Citizenship Education and Current Education Reform
www.csse.ca/cje/articles/fulltext/cje21-2/cje21-2-03sears.pdf

Citizenship education in Slovenia between past and future
http://www.sowi-onlinejournal.de/2003-2/slovenia_simenc.htm

Historical Consciousness or Citizenship Education
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/css/Css_35_4/NThistorical_consciousness.htm

Problems and Possibilities for Relating Citizenship Education and Religious Education in Europe
http://folk.uio.no/leirvik/OsloCoalition/JacksonSteele0904.htm

Perspectives on the provision of education for citizenship in Scotland and France, including a small scale comparative study of pupil experience in Brittany and Scotland
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003495.htm

Civics and Citizenship Education
Major developments and current trends in the teaching of civics and citizenship
http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/anr2002/ch11_majordev.htm

Citizenship Education Research Network (CERN)
http://canada.metropolis.net/research-policy/cern-pub/overview.html