David Hansen (Colombia University) has written an extended review of my new book in the Journal of Moral Education.

JOURNAL OF MORAL EDUCATION https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2024.2384808

EXTENDED BOOK REVIEW

Educational research and the ongoing quest for justice: Review of Wiel Veugelers (2023) Moral and political dimensions of critical-democratic citizenship education: Enhancing social justice, a global orientation, and equity in schools and society. Leiden and Boston: Brill

  

David T. Hansen

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

ABSTRACT

In this unique volume, Wiel Veugelers provides a critical overview of research he has undertaken in the field of moral and citizenship education over the past twenty-five years. The watchword is ‘criti- cal’. Veugelers has not simply thrown together a set of previously published works. Rather, he applies a three-part critical lens to each entry, which can be summarized as follows: (1) why he composed the article in the first place, (2) how the article was received in the field, and (3) how the author feels about the article now, especially with respect to its contemporary relevance. This critical perspective helps bring alive the fourteen selected publications, which are divided into six parts whose sequence nicely frames Veugelers’ career research trajectory. In this review, I will touch on each of the six parts and then conclude with several questions his impor- tant research program has bequeathed to the field of moral and citizenship education.