Kevin McDonough / Walter Feinberg (eds.)

Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies

Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities
Herausgeber: Feinberg, Walter; McDonough, Kevin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780199283996
• ISBN-10: 0199283990
• Artikelnr.: 21368061

Autorenporträt

Kevin McDonough is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University. Walter Feinberg is Professor of Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cahmpaign.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Liberalism and the Dilemma of Public Education in
Multicultural Societies
* Cosmopolitanism, Liberalism, and Common Education
* 1: Jeremy Waldron: Teaching Cosmopolitan Right
* 2: K. Anthony Appiah: Liberal Education: The United States Example
* 3: Kenneth A. Strike: Pluralism, Personal Identity, and Freedom of
Conscience
* 4: Joseph Dunne: Between State and Civil Society: European Contexts
for Education
* 5: Terence H. McLaughlin: The Burdens and Dilemmas of Common
Schooling
* 6: Harry Brighouse: Should We Teach Patriotic History?
* Liberalism and Traditionalist Education
* 7: Shelley Burtt: Comprehensive Educations and the Liberal
Understanding of Autonomy
* 8: Melissa S. Williams: Citizenship as Identity, Citizenship as
Shared Fate, and the Functions of Multiculatural Education
* 9: David Blacker: Civic Friendship and Democratic Education
* 10: J. Mark Halstead: Schooling and Cultural Maintenance for
Religious Minorities in the Liberal State
* Liberal Constraints on Traditionalist Education
* 11: Rob Reich: Multicultural Accomodations in Education
* 12: Susan Moller Okin: 'Mistresses of Their Own Destiny': Group
Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit
* 13: Kevin McDonough: Multinational Civic Education
* 14: Walter Feinberg: Religious Education in Liberal Democratic
Societies: The Question of Accountability and Autonomy
* 15: Stephen Macedo: Liberalism and Group Identities