Citizenship education and diversity - Implications for teacher education

In the first part of this article, the author argues that teachers should h elp students to develop a delicate balance of cultural, national, and globa l identifications because of the rich diversity in the United States and th roughout the world. To help students become effective citizens, teachers ne ed to acquire reflective cultural, national, and global identifications. In the second part of this article, the author describes how he fries to help the students in one of his teacher education courses to challenge and crit ically examine their cultural and national identifications.