The resurgency of patriotism in America is described. Citizenship is dealt with as a historical construction and from various ideological perspectives. Ideologies underlying citizenship education in the schools, in movies, and in television are investigated. Important theoretical considerations for a critical theory of citizenship education are…

Dewey's idea of "mutual national understanding" faces new challenges in the age of globalization, especially in education for global understanding. In this essay Naoko Saito aims to find an alternative idea and language for "mutual national understanding," one that is more attuned to the sensibility of our times. She argues for Stanley Cavell's…

Contemporary philosophical and political theories place high hopes on the concept of deliberative democracy. Within educational research, there seems to be widespread agreement that if students are to be educated for deliberative democracy, actual classroom deliberation constitutes an indispensable educational tool. From the standpoint of…

In part of an ongoing study of white complicity, moral responsibility, and moral agency in social justice education, Barbara Applebaum asks in this essay what model or models of moral responsibility can help white students recognize their white complicity and which models of moral responsibility obscure such acknowledgment. To address this…

This essay focuses on what happens to the individual's attitude toward community when events that pass into the category of uncanny become seemingly commonplace and are experienced as direct assaults on the logic of community and cooperation. It refers to Nietzsche's views on the negative, and Dewey's views on the positive doctrine of motivation.…

This article examines the theoretical assumptions of one type of behaviorism, currently known as social-learning theory, developed by the Sophist Protagoras. Also included is a brief investigation of Socrates' criticism of this view of psychology and his argument that it is an unsatisfactory basis for moral and citizenship education. (IAH)

This article discusses Thomas Hobbes' concept of conscience, the historical context in which the concept was formulated, and Hobbes' conclusion that civil law takes precedence over religious conscience. Hobbes' views are related to the debate between Pratte and Losito over the interaction between religious and civic conscience. (IAH)

The author examines the philosophical bases for the differing opinions of Russell and Bode as to the relative values of education geared toward individual development as opposed to those which concentrate on developing a sense of citizenship or social responsibility. (MJB)

Examines what values and virtues schools should cultivate in students as part of a program of moral or citizenship education, noting how these values and virtues differ based on historical and political contexts. The article focuses on four recent volumes on moral and citizenship education. (SM)

In this paper, I first examine the three justifications most often provided for differentiating, discounting, or even disclaiming the present generation's moral responsibility to future generations. I then discuss ideological critiques of, and educational solutions to, the complicity of formal educational institutions in propagating these…

Discusses the importance of values education, focusing on: the primary moral concerns of values education; varieties of values education (law, culture, and morality); varieties of values education (cultural diversity); value and evaluation (some conceptual problems); the grounds of value objectivity; Aristotle, virtue, and value; and general…

Discusses cyberliteracy and cyberfeminism, offering alternative viewpoints to other articles on the issue in order to prompt further dialogue between educational philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies. The paper focuses on cyberfeminism and citizenship, cyberfeminist conventionalists, avant-garde cyberfeminists, and multiliteracies, examining…

The point is made that the highest priority for improvement on all levels of education for the next quarter of a century lies in an intensified search for education's role in achieving freedom, equality, and community, and that the very highest priority should be given to the search for a viable, inclusive, and just political community. (JD)

This essay draws together various ideas on education that appear in the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and demonstrates how these ideas relate to Hegel's total philosophy. Education, by retracing the path of the mind's self-realization, raises the individual's subjective consciousness to recognition of the rationality underlying social…

In the 1920s and 1930s, educational administrators and physical educators saw athletics as a means of developing those character traits associated with efficient citizenship in a modern industrial society. High school varsity athletic competition has changed little since the early part of this century. (CJ)