Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal DemocracyAny liberal democratic state must honour religious and cultural pluralism in its educational policies. To fail to honour them would betray ideals of freedom and toleration fundamental to liberal democracy. Yet if such ideals are to flourish from one generation to the next, allegiance to the distinctive values of liberal democracy is a necessary educational end, whose pursuit will constrain pluralism. The problem of political education is therefore to ensure the continuity across generations of the constitutive ideals of liberal democracy, while remaining hospitable to a diversity of conduct and belief that sometimes threatens those very ideals. Creating Citizens addresses this crucial problem. In lucid and elegant prose, Professor 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 the 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. Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in applied political theory. The series will contain works of outstanding quality with no restriction as to approach or subject matter. The series editors are David Miller and Alan Ryan. |
Contents
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AUTONOMY JUSTICE AND THE GOOD | 46 |
Introduction | 70 |
PATRIOTISM AND SENTIMENTALITY | 100 |
Sentimentality and Unearned Emotion | 103 |
Fictions of Purity and Political Vice | 105 |
Borrowing from Plato | 109 |
The Uncertain Role of Critical Reason | 112 |
Education and Schooling | 163 |
The Separatist Argument | 167 |
Minimalist Common Education | 169 |
Consensus and Respect | 171 |
Political Virtue and Common Schooling | 174 |
Reconciling Separate and Common Education | 178 |
Separate Schools and the Right to Educational Choice | 182 |
Separate Schools and Tolerance | 189 |
Emotional Generosity and Historical Imagination | 115 |
History Literature and Political Virtue | 121 |
Whose Tradition? | 123 |
Patriotism and Communitarianism | 126 |
Introduction | 132 |
Parents Rights to Educational Choice | 135 |
Childrens Needs and Parental SelfFulfilment | 138 |
Parents and Sovereignty | 145 |
Children and Sovereignty | 147 |
Sovereignty and the Limits of Autonomy | 149 |
Filial Servility and Parental Despotism | 152 |
Mozert Reconsidered | 157 |
COMMON SCHOOLS SEPARATE SCHOOLS | 162 |
Who Wants Common Schools? | 193 |
VIRTUE DIALOGUE AND THE COMMON SCHOOL | 196 |
Moral Commitment and Character | 197 |
Care against Truth in Dialogue | 202 |
Moral Distress and the Limits of Care | 206 |
Moral Belligerence and Dialogue | 209 |
Confrontation and Conciliation | 214 |
CONCLUSION | 221 |
Notes | 224 |
Bibliography | 244 |
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Page 5 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
Page 6 - That they are educating the young for citizenship is reason for scrupulous protection of Constitutional freedoms of the individual, if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes.