Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies

Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities

Walter Feinberg editor Kevin McDonough editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:28th Aug '03

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The essays in the volume address educational issues that arise when national, sub-national and supra-national identities compete. How can we determine the limits to parental educational rights when liberalism's concern to protect and promote children's autonomy conflicts with the desire to maintain communal integrity? Given the advances made by the forces of globalization, can the liberal-democratic state morally justify its traditional purpose of forging a cohesive national identity? Or has increasing globalization rendered this educational aim obsolete and morally corrupt? Should liberal education instead seek to foster a sense of global citizenship, even if doing so would suppress patriotic identification? In addressing these and many other questions, the volume examines the theoretical and practical issues at stake between nationalists, multiculturalists and cosmopolitans in the field of education. The fifteen essays, plus an introductory essay by the editors, provide a genuine, productive dialogue between political and legal philosophers and educational theorists.

ISBN: 9780199253661

Dimensions: 241mm x 163mm x 29mm

Weight: 852g

456 pages