Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy (Oxford Political Theory)

Callan, Eamonn

ISBN 10: 0198292589 / ISBN 13: 9780198292586

Edité par Clarendon Press, 1997

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• Titre: Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy (Oxford Political Theory)
• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198292589
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198292586
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: new

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Any 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.

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Professor Eamonn Callan is Professor of Educational Policy Studies aty the University of Alberta, Canada. He was educated at University College, Dublin and at the University of Alberta, where he gained his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Education in 1982. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the philosophy of education and educational policy.