Week Nine

Tuesday

3. Consumer Culture and Citizenship (cont.)

3.2 Defining the Problem: Part Two---- The Challenge to Citizenship

Part Two: "The Eclipse of Citizens," pp. 213-257 (Chapter Six)

4. Kids: Between the Market and Citizenship: Challenging Marketing to Children

Part Three: "The Fate of Citizens," pp. 257-341 (Chapters Seven and Eight).

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What might citizenship mean? A Brief History of Citizenship Education in the United States (from a symposium on civic education sponsored by the American Political Science Association).

• Human Rights Education: Its Day Has Come, Richard Pierre Claude [http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/PS/claude.cfm]
• Political Scientists Examine Civics Standards: An Introduction, Sheilah Mann [http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/PS/mann.cfm]
• Civic Education: Three Early American Political Science Association Committees and their Relevance for Our Time, Hindy Lauer Schachter [http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/PS/schachter.cfm]
• Review of National Standards for Civics and Government, Murray Dry [http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/PS/dry.cfm]
• Symbols as Substance in National Civics Standards, Richard M. Merelman [http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/PS/merelman.cfm]
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, see in particular the "Bells of Freedom Training Manual." [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/curricula.html].
• Also at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Home Page [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/index.html], see the jobs section and the field training [http://www.hrusa.org/field/joblinks.shtm] and internship sections [http://www.hrusa.org/field/default.shtm].
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights [http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/].
• UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child [http://www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm]

What media and citizen activism might look like:

• "Voluntary Simplicity and the New Global Challenge," Duane Elgin, CSR, (pp.397-414)
• "Towards a New Politics of Consumption," Juliet Schor, CSR, (pp. 446-463).
• "Why Consumption Matters," Betsy Taylor and Dave Tilford, CSR, (pp. 463-488)

Thursday

Happy Thanksgiving!