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Sheron Fraser-Burgess; Chris Higgins – Educational Theory, 2024
To enact democracy, which is to live in communication with difference, requires a formative process that involves an education of the whole person for and through civic life. Drawing on Charles Mills's theory of "Herrenvolk" ethics and Jonathan Lear's analysis of psychosocial lapses that ail us, Sheron Fraser-Burgess and Chris Higgins…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship, Cultural Pluralism, Ethics
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Tony DeCesare – Educational Theory, 2024
Education-related responses to our current democratic crisis have largely been focused on schooling children and youth. This narrow focus has foreclosed or diverted our attention from other possibilities for democratic education, especially as it relates to adult citizens and the ways in which such education can -- and must -- extend beyond…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Democracy, Democratic Values
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Culp, Julian – Educational Theory, 2023
In this article Julian Culp offers a new conceptualization of democratic citizenship education in light of the transformations of contemporary Western societies to which the use of digital technologies has contributed. His conceptualization adopts a deliberative understanding of democracy that provides a systemic perspective on society-wide…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Citizenship Education, Educational Theories, Technology
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Sarah M. Stitzlein – Educational Theory, 2024
Populists employ truth as a tool for aligning the people against the elite. Citizenship education rarely takes up critiques of liberal democracy, discussions of populism, or conversations about what truth is. This paper provides an alternative pragmatist vision of truth that builds on the populist call for democracy to better reflect the will of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Pragmatics, Political Attitudes
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Risberg, Eirik Julius – Educational Theory, 2022
In an increasingly globalized world, empathy has been identified as a core competency of future global citizens and thus as an important skill to be fostered in global citizenship education (GCE). Despite this, however, what empathy "is," and "how" it can play the pivotal role often claimed for it in the literature, have not…
Descriptors: Empathy, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Educational Philosophy
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Caitlin Murphy Brust; Hannah Widmaier – Educational Theory, 2024
In this paper, Caitlin Murphy Brust and Hannah Widmaier begin with the assumption that highly selective institutions of higher education in the United States have a duty to promote civic equality. They employ Wendy Salkin's theory of informal political representation to examine how highly selective institutions should go about promoting civic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Civics, Citizenship Responsibility, Student Responsibility
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Kucirkova, Natalia; Gray, Sandra Leaton – Educational Theory, 2023
This essay explains how, from the theoretical perspective of Basil Bernstein's three "conditions for democracy," the current pedagogy of artificially intelligent personalized learning seems inadequate. Building on Bernstein's comprehensive work and more recent research concerned with personalized education, Natalia Kucirkova and Sandra…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Citizenship, Artificial Intelligence, Individualized Instruction
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Deane, Samantha – Educational Theory, 2022
Addressing the problem of rampage school gun violence, this article aims to problematize how we think about agency, in this case when we assign agency to individual shooters but not to networks or objects. In it, Samantha Deane, working within the new materialist and critical vein of pragmatism, situates agency as both limited and widely…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Violence, Personal Autonomy, Sex Role
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Stitzlein, Sarah – Educational Theory, 2023
In this paper, Sarah Stitzlein considers the consequences of honesty on our democracy, especially for citizens' ability to engage in civic inquiry together as they face shared problems. Honesty is a key component of a well-functioning democracy; it develops trust and fosters the sorts of relationships among citizens that enable civic dialogue and…
Descriptors: Democracy, Ethics, Citizen Participation, Participative Decision Making
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Knight Abowitz, Kathleen; Mamlok, Dan – Educational Theory, 2020
In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Dan Mamlok consider the arguments for agonist political education in light of a case study based in the events of the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the subsequent activism of its survivors. We use this case to examine agonist expressions of citizenship, and…
Descriptors: Activism, Politics, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
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Stevens, David – Educational Theory, 2023
Societies concerned with preventing acts of violent extremism often target the ideas that are thought to motivate such acts. The state's use of educational institutions is one mechanism by which those ideas are subjected to challenge. Teaching liberal democratic values to students is one method. Here, David Stevens argues that this model is…
Descriptors: Social Values, Terrorism, Prevention, Antisocial Behavior
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Gottlieb, Derek; Shuffelton, Amy B. – Educational Theory, 2020
In the immediate aftermath of the November 2016 election, Mark Lilla argued in the "New York Times" that in order to win, the Democratic party would need to replace identity politics with a unifying vision of citizenship. In this essay, Derek Gottlieb and Amy Shuffelton explore Lilla's use of the two major terms -- identity and…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elections, Presidents, Periodicals
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Shuffelton, Amy B. – Educational Theory, 2018
"Collaboration" is frequently urged on students, who are praised for being "good collaborators." Yet collaboration has two senses: a positive sense of autonomously undertaken joint endeavor, but also a sinister implication of treacherous cooperation with enemies. In this article, Amy Shuffelton probes the uses and misuses of…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Objectives, Philosophy, Neoliberalism
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Schultz, Annie – Educational Theory, 2020
In this article Annie Schultz argues that engaging with narratives of resistance and empowerment in literary fiction makes for an important addition to the practice of political education. She is interested, in particular, in what can be gained from the thoughtful contemplation modeled by the inner monologues of literary narrators. Many writers of…
Descriptors: Fiction, Role, Citizenship Education, Civics
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Fantuzzo, John P. – Educational Theory, 2018
In this essay John Fantuzzo critiques civic education's current focus on power and turns to James Baldwin's conception of love as offering an alternative approach. Fantuzzo's argument is that Baldwin's understanding of love can contribute to civic education by disclosing the significance of interpersonal solidarity between citizens, a significance…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Criticism, Power Structure, Authors
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