Citizenship And Education In Liberal-Democratic Societies:

Description:
The essays in this volume address the educational issues which arise when national, sub-national, and supra-national identities compete. How can we determine the limits of parental educational rights, when the concern of liberalism 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.

Review:
This fine collection illustrates the complexity of the present contested terrain of liberal theory in philosophy of education. The authors provide such a thorough treatment of the issues that we are left asking where the debate could go from here. Theory and Research in Education, 3 (3), p. 377 (2005)

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Liberalism and the Dilemma of Public Education in Multicultural Societies; COSMOPOLITANISM, LIBERALISM, AND COMMON EDUCATION; 1. Teaching Cosmopolitan Right; 2. Liberal Education: The United States Example; 3. Pluralism, Personal Identity, and Freedom of Conscience; 4. Between State and Civil Society: European Contexts for Education; 5. The Burdens and Dilemmas of Common Schooling; 6. Should We Teach Patriotic History?; LIBERALISM AND TRADITIONALIST EDUCATION; 7. Comprehensive Educations and the Liberal Understanding of Autonomy; 8. Citizenship as Identity, Citizenship as Shared Fate, and the Functions of Multiculatural Education; 9. Civic Friendship and Democratic Education; 10. Schooling and Cultural Maintenance for Religious Minorities in the Liberal State; LIBERAL CONSTRAINTS ON TRADITIONALIST EDUCATION; 11. Multicultural Accomodations in Education; 12. 'Mistresses of Their Own Destiny': Group Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit; 13. Multinational Civic Education; 14. Religious Education in Liberal Democratic Societies: The Question of Accountability and Autonomy; 15. Liberalism and Group Identities