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

Callan, Eamonn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199270198 ISBN 13: 9780199270194

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Synopsis

An honest and disciplined approach to political education in a liberal democracy

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What is the role of political education in liberal democracies? This question, which is at the heart of recent debates in the US over federal funding of private schools, forms the core of this book. The problem of political education is to ensure the constitutive ideals of liberal democracy while remaining open to a diversity of conduct and beliefs that may threaten those ideals. In Creating Citizens, Eamonn 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 our 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.

Review

Review from previous edition This is a very good book...it contains an original interpretation of certain aspects of liberal political philosophy; and it applies some of these insights to the pressing issue of the kind of education that is appropriate for liberal citizenship. Callan is to be commended for applying a sophisticated liberal political philosophy to the difficult and neglected issues of citizenship education. Even when readers disagree with Callan's conclusions, they will benefit from engaging with his argument and analysis. (The Review of Politics)

Its argument has obvious relevance to a range of educational settings. Callan's reasoned and dialogical way of writing underpins an honest and disciplined approach to political education in a liberal democracy. (Journal of Moral Education)

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199270198
• ISBN 13: 9780199270194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272