Nick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Nottingham University. He has written a number of books, including Culture, Ideology and Socialism (1995), Understanding Media Cultures (1995), The Transformation of the Media (1999), Making Sense of Men's Lifestyle Magazines (2001), Cultural Citizenship (2003) and David Bowie: Fame, Sound and Vision (2006). He is also currently on the editorial board of the BSA journal Cultural Sociology and Keywords.

Introduction
Cultural Citizenship, Education and Democracy
Redefining the Good Society
Democratic Socialism, Multiculturalism and the Third Way
Questions of Education
Critical Pedagogy, Democracy and Capitalism
Education without Enemies or Borders
Pragmaticism and Environmental Education
Education in the Consumer and Information Age
Education, Hope and the Politics of Fear
The Resilience of Democracy and Cultural Citizenship

"Nick Stevenson skilfully draws upon a welter of leading thinkers from the liberal, socialist, critical-theory and multiculturalist canons in developing his argument that leading ideas about education are umbilically tied to notions of the good society. The pluralistic and undogmatic manner in which he sifts these accounts, and his insistence upon the centrality of democratic citizenship, make this a timely and important contribution to current debates about the nature and purpose of schools."
- Michael Kenny, University of Sheffield
"In Education and Cultural Citizenship Nick Stevenson presents a powerful argument concerning how education can and should promote democracy, accompanied by critiques of how all-too-often education fails to do so. Full of strong ideas, arguments, engagement with key thinkers, Stevenson's book should be of great interest to all concerned with the nexus of democracy and education."
- Douglas Kellner, UCLA
This dynamic book systematically brings together the major developments in the social and political theory of education. It offers a global introduction to the major debates within the field and provides a sustained argument for a democratic and normative view of education.
Nick Stevenson provides a comprehensive view of the major disputes within social, cultural and political approaches to education. Drawing upon varied critical traditions, the book helpfully connects these diverse threads of debate whilst exploring the work of key theorists. Areas explored include:

• democratic notions of education


• cosmopolitanism


• multiculturalism


• pragmaticism


• critical pedagogy


• democratic socialism


• liberalism


• politics of fear.