Troubling the Canon of Citizenship Education

The Editors: George H. Richardson is Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. He holds an M.A. in history and a Ph.D. in curriculum studies (social studies education) from the University of Alberta. His research interests include national identity formation, citizenship education, multicultural education, and action research. Before his appointment to the University of Alberta, he was a classroom teacher for more than twenty years. He has taught in Canada's northern schools and in the Ukraine. Among his numerous publications is The Death of the Good Canadian: Teachers, National Identities and the Social Studies Curriculum (Peter Lang, 2002). David W. Blades is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Teacher Education at the University of Victora. He holds a Ph.D. in secondary education (science education) from the University of Alberta and a M.Ed. in curriculum studies from the University of Victoria. He has been a director of two centers for excellence in science education. Dr. Blades has published widely on citizenship education, multiculturalism, poststructuralism, and issues in curriculum reform, including Procedures of Power & Curriculum Change (Peter Lang, 1997).