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Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies Kevin McDonough (Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, McGill University)

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies By Kevin McDonough (Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, McGill University)

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies by Kevin McDonough (Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, McGill University)


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This book brings together essays by leading political, legal, and educational theorists to re-examine the requirements of citizenship education in liberal-democratic societies. The chapters in the book evaluate demands by minority groups for cultural recognition through education, and also examine arguments for and against citizenship education as a means of fostering a shared national identity.

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies Summary

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities by Kevin McDonough (Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, McGill University)

The essays in this volume address the educational issues which arise when national, sub-national, and supra-national identities compete. How can we determine the limits of parental educational rights when the concern of liberalism to protect and promote children's autonomy conflicts with the desire to maintain communal integrity? Given the advances made by the forces of globalization, can the liberal-democratic state morally justify its traditional purpose of forging a cohesive national identity? Or has increasing globalization rendered this educational aim obsolete and morally corrupt? Should liberal education instead seek to foster a sense of global citizenship, even if doing so would suppress patriotic identification? In addressing these and many other questions, the volume examines the theoretical and practical issues at stake between nationalists, multiculturalists, and cosmopolitans in the field of education. The fifteen essays, plus an introductory essay by the editors, provide a genuine, productive dialogue between political and legal philosophers and educational theorists.

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies Reviews

This fine collection illustrates the complexity of the present contested terrain of liberal theory in philosophy of education. The authors provide such a thorough treatment of the issues that we are left asking where the debate could go from here. * Theory and Research in Education, 3 (3), p. 377 (2005) *

Table of Contents

COSMOPOLITANISM, LIBERALISM, AND COMMON EDUCATION; LIBERALISM AND TRADITIONALIST EDUCATION; LIBERAL CONSTRAINTS ON TRADITIONALIST EDUCATION

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NLS9780199283996
9780199283996
0199283990
Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities by Kevin McDonough (Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, McGill University)
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Oxford University Press
2005-12-01
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