What is the role of political education in liberal democracies? This question, which is at the heart of recent debates in the US over federal funding of private schools, forms the core of this book. The problem of political education is to ensure the constitutive ideals of liberal democracy while remaining open to a diversity of conduct and beliefs that may threaten those ideals. In Creating Citizens, Eamonn Callan, one of the world's foremost philosophers of education, identifies both the principal ends of civic education and the rights that limit their political pursuit. This timely new study sheds light on some of our most divisive educational controversies, such as state sponsorship and regulation of denominational schooling, as well as the role of non-denominational schools in the moral and political development of children.
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`Review from previous edition This is a very good book...it contains an original interpretation of certain aspects of liberal political philosophy; and it applies some of these insights to the pressing issue of the kind of education that is appropriate for liberal citizenship. Callan is to be commended for applying a sophisticated liberal political philosophy to the difficult and neglected issues of citizenship education. Even when readers disagree with Callan's conclusions, they will benefit from engaging with his argument and analysis.' The Review of Politics
`Its argument has obvious relevance to a range of educational settings. Callan's reasoned and dialogical way of writing underpins an honest and disciplined approach to political education in a liberal democracy.' Journal of Moral Education
`Its argument has obvious relevance to a range of educational settings. Callan's reasoned and dialogical way of writing underpins an honest and disciplined approach to political education in a liberal democracy.' Journal of Moral Education
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Eamonn Callan is a Professor of Education, Stanford University.
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Political debate in our liberal democracies is largely confined to questions about the pursuit of material prosperity and the maintenance of civil peace, respect for liberty, and the just distribution of wealth and privilege. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethical servility, sentimental civic education, unreasonable pluralism, dialogical task, educated despair, sentimental political education, reasonable citizenship, political sentimentality, ethical confrontation, separatist case, comprehensive liberalism, separatist argument, liberal patriotism, parental despotism, constitutional consensus, common schooling, moral distress, simple integrity, prospective interest, separate schooling, expressive interest, ethical diversity, common education, moral dialogue, great sphere Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Age, Brave New World, True Believers, Deferential Child, Ethically Servile Child, United States, Jacob of Josefov, Deferential Wife, John Dewey, Patrick White, Robert Bork, Supreme Court, Whose Tradition New!
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Political debate in our liberal democracies is largely confined to questions about the pursuit of material prosperity and the maintenance of civil peace, respect for liberty, and the just distribution of wealth and privilege. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethical servility, sentimental civic education, unreasonable pluralism, dialogical task, educated despair, sentimental political education, reasonable citizenship, political sentimentality, ethical confrontation, separatist case, comprehensive liberalism, separatist argument, liberal patriotism, parental despotism, constitutional consensus, common schooling, moral distress, simple integrity, prospective interest, separate schooling, expressive interest, ethical diversity, common education, moral dialogue, great sphere Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Age, Brave New World, True Believers, Deferential Child, Ethically Servile Child, United States, Jacob of Josefov, Deferential Wife, John Dewey, Patrick White, Robert Bork, Supreme Court, Whose Tradition New!
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- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 11 pages
- Political Liberalism: Expanded Edition (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) by John Rawls on 10 pages
- Love and exile by Isaac Bashevis Singer on 4 pages
- The Rule of Law: Nomos XXXVI (American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy) by Ian Shapiro in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan on page 70, and Back Matter
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- Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities by Kevin McDonough on 4 pages
- The Moral and Political Status of Children by David Archard in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- For Goodness Sake: Religious Schools and Education for Democratic Citizenry (Social Theory, Education and Cultural Change) by Walter Feinberg in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Justice and Legitimacy in Upbringing by Matthew Clayton on page 44, and Back Matter
- Education for Democratic Citizenship: Issues of Theory and Practice by Andrew Lockyer on page 45, and page 102
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