ABSTRACT
The acquisition of a sense of national identity is commonly regarded as a necessary feature of education for citizenship, likely to promote the development of an appropriate set of citizen values, including an attachment and commitment to one’s fellow nationals. Yet the accelerating pace of globalization-‘the rapid growth of complex interconnections and interrelations between states and societies’ (Held 1995b:ix) raises the possibility that citizenship understood as membership of a particular nation-state offers too restricted a notion of citizen identity and, hence, of the values appropriate to democratic citizenship. If this is so, it has implications for citizenship education.
