This book explores the inherent tension in civic education. There is a
surging belief in contemporary European society that liberal democracy
should work harder to reproduce the civic and normative setups of
national populations through public education. The cardinal notion is
that education remains the best means to accomplish this end, and
educational regimes appropriate tools to make the young more tolerant,
civic, democratic, communal, cosmopolitan, and prone to engaged
activism. This book is concerned with the ambiguities that strain
standard visions of civic education and educational statehood. On the
one hand, civic-normative education is expected to drive tolerance in
the face of conflicting good-life affirmations and accelerating
worldview pluralisation; on the other hand, nation-states are
primarily interested in reproducing the normative prerogatives that
prevail in restricted cultural environments. This means that civic
education unfolds on two irreconcilable planes at once: one
cosmopolitan/tolerant, another parochial/intolerant. The book will be
of significant interest to students and scholars of education,
sociology, normative statehood, democracy, and liberal political
culture, particularly those working in the areas of civic education;
as well as education policy-makers.
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ISBN
9783319557984
Publisert
2020
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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