The chapters ahead will traverse in detail and with greater insight the
issues that have been raised here. The diversity of the region will be
highlighted, as will the methods that have been used to try and interrogate
that diversity. It does seem that across the region, citizenship
education is important to governments and therefore to schools. However,
when it comes to pedagogies, context, and local circumstances seem
to be the key determinants. Students seem to be as aware of these
pedagogies as are the teachers, and the student views portrayed are more
suggestive of the possibilities for the future than those of the teachers.
Citizenship pedagogies in Asia and the Pacific have to be seen as a
‘work-in-progress’ and what follows attempts to report that progress
from the multiple perspectives that characterise the region.