Civic education and liberal democracy : making post-normative citizens in normative political spaces

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Civic education and liberal democracy : making post-normative citizens in normative political spaces

Title remainder

making post-normative citizens in normative political spaces

Statement of responsibility

Peter Strandbrink

Subject

• Democracy and education
• Education -- Political aspects
• Liberalism

Language

eng

Summary

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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• Online access with purchase: Springer
• Palgrave studies in global citizenship, education and democracy

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

379

Index

no index present

LC call number

LC71

LC item number

.S87 2017eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Palgrave studies in global citizenship, education and democracy