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Young Children’s Citizenship Education in Canada: Background, Content and Values; Based on the Analysis of Early Learning Guidelines in Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia Year of publication: 2019 Author: XU Peng Corporate author: Primary and Secondary Education in Foreign Countries Citizenship education for young children has been growingly emphasized by western countries. With the influence of global policy discourses, curriculum reform in early childhood education and studies of young children’s citizenship, citizenship education has become a key aspect in Canadian early childhood curriculum. Based on recent studies, this research forms a theoretical framework for citizenship education, which covers four dimensions of citizenship (political education, social education, subjectivity education and civic practice education). The early learning frameworks in Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia are analyzed through thematic analysis. In general, citizenship education for young children in these three provinces reveal the following features: emphasizing young children’s rights and responsibilities, and advocating young children’s subject positions as citizens; the traditional citizenship is being changed and young children’s participation is highlighted as the root of democracy; young children’s citizenship lies in multiple discursive fields with indigenous perspective emerging. 加拿大学前儿童公民教育: 时代背景、内容向度与价值导向; 基于阿尔伯塔等三省早期学习框架的分析 Year of publication: 2019 Author: XU Peng Corporate author: Primary and Secondary Education in Foreign Countries 当下，学前儿童公民教育愈发受到西方各国的关注。在国际政策话语、学前教育 课程改革以及儿童公民研究的共同推动下，公民教育逐渐成为加拿大各省学前教育课程的 重要组成部分。在近期儿童公民研究的基础上，形成以政治教育、社会性教育、主体性教育 和公民实践教育为内容向度的理论分析框架。通过主题分析，对阿尔伯塔省、不列颠哥伦比 亚省和新斯科舍省学前教育阶段的公民教育内容进行了分析。总的来看，三省的学前儿童 公民教育凸显了如下价值导向：强调儿童公民权责，倡导儿童为公民主体；变革传统公民身 份，视儿童参与为社会民主的根基；儿童公民话语多元，国际语境下凸显本土立场。