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Education for citizenship
[Forschungsbericht]
Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
Abstract Although it is widely accepted that a basic task of schooling is to prepare each new generation for their responsibilities as citizens, the appropriate form and content of citizenship education is often controversial. This paper discusses some of these controversies. I begin by arguing that citizens... mehr
Although it is widely accepted that a basic task of schooling is to prepare each new generation for their responsibilities as citizens, the appropriate form and content of citizenship education is often controversial. This paper discusses some of these controversies. I begin by arguing that citizenship is more complicated than is often realized, and that even ‘minimal’ conceptions of citizenship impose significant obligations and constraints on individual and group behaviour. I then consider three inter-related areas of debate: whether citizenship education requires common schooling; whether promoting responsible citizenship requires promoting personal autonomy; and whether promoting a shared civic identity requires teaching not only shared political values or principles but also promoting particular national or cultural identities. These three issues help illustrate the centrality of education for citizenship to both political theory and educational philosophy. [author's abstract]... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Staatsangehörigkeit; politische Bildung; Liberalismus; Demokratie; nationale Identität; politische Theorie; Bildungsinhalt
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
1996
Erscheinungsort
Wien
Seitenangabe
35 S.
Schriftenreihe
Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft, 40
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
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