Creating Citizens Political Education and Liberal Democracy

by Callan, Eamonn

• ISBN13: 9780198292586
• ISBN10: 0198292589
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-30
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Professor Eamonn Callan is Professor of Educational Policy Studies aty the University of Alberta, Canada. He was educated at University College, Dublin and at the University of Alberta, where he gained his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Education in 1982. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the philosophy of education and educational policy.

Table of Contents

1. EDUCATION AND THE POLITICS OF VIRTUE	1	(11)
1. Introduction	1	(2)
2. Liberal Politics and Virtue	3	(4)
3. Political Virtue and Pluralism	7	(3)
4. Liberal Democracy and Autonomy	10	(2)
2. PLURALISM AND POLITICAL LIBERALISM	12	(31)
5. Introduction	12	(1)
6. From Comprehensive to Political Liberalism	13	(4)
7. Varieties of Comprehensive and Political Liberalism	17	(4)
8. Reasonable Pluralism	21	(3)
9. The Political Conception of the Person	24	(4)
10. The Burdens of Judgement and the Limits of Diversity	28	(6)
11. How Burdensome are the Burdens of Judgement?	34	(2)
12. Political Liberalism and the Fate of Religion	36	(3)
13. Back to Comprehensive Liberalism	39	(4)
3. AUTONOMY, JUSTICE, AND THE GOOD	43	(27)
14. Introduction	43	(1)
15. Political Education and Constitutional Consensus	44	(3)
16. Justice Without Autonomy	47	(5)
17. Autonomy and the Exaltation of Choice	52	(4)
18. Choosing and Willing	56	(4)
19. Simple Integrity	60	(1)
20. Integrity and Pluralism	61	(6)
21. Autonomy and the Good: A Modest Convergence	67	(3)
4. JUSTICE, CARE, AND COMMUNITY	70	(30)
22. Introduction	70	(1)
23. Towards a Common Voice	71	(7)
24. Care and the Circumstances of Justice	78	(3)
25. Intimacy and Community	81	(6)
26. Retrieving Patriotism	87	(7)
27. Trust, Patriotism, and Pluralism	94	(3)
28. Two Objections	97	(3)
5. PATRIOTISM AND SENTIMENTALITY	100	(32)
29. Introduction	100	(3)
30. Sentimentality and Unearned Emotion	103	(2)
31. Fictions of Purity and Political Vice	105	(4)
32. Borrowing from Plato	109	(3)
33. The Uncertain Role of Critical Reason	112	(3)
34. Emotional Generosity and Historical Imagination	115	(6)
35. History, Literature, and Political Virtue	121	(2)
36. Whose Tradition?	123	(3)
37. Patriotism and Communitarianism	126	(6)
6. THE GREAT SPHERE AND RIGHTS	132	(30)
38. Introduction	132	(3)
39. Parents' Rights to Educational Choice	135	(3)
40. Children's Needs and Parental Self-Fulfilment	138	(7)
41. Parents and Sovereignty	145	(2)
42. Children and Sovereignty	147	(2)
43. Sovereignty and the Limits of Autonomy	149	(3)
44. Filial Servility and Parental Despotism	152	(5)
45. From Principle to Policy: Mozert Reconsidered	157	(5)
7. COMMON SCHOOLS, SEPARATE SCHOOLS	162	(34)
46. Introduction	162	(1)
47. Education and Schooling	163	(4)
48. The Separatist Argument	167	(2)
49. Minimalist Common Education	169	(2)
50. Consensus and Respect	171	(3)
51. Political Virtue and Common Schooling	174	(4)
52. Reconciling Separate and Common Education	178	(4)
53. Separate Schools and the Right to Educational Choice	182	(7)
54. Separate Schools and Tolerance	189	(4)
55. Who Wants Common Schools?	193	(3)
8. VIRTUE, DIALOGUE, AND THE COMMON SCHOOL	196	(25)
56. Introduction	196	(1)
57. Moral Commitment and Character	197	(5)
58. Care against Truth in Dialogue	202	(4)
59. Moral Distress and the Limits of Care	206	(3)
60. Moral Belligerence and Dialogue	209	(5)
61. Confrontation and Conciliation	214	(7)
9. CONCLUSION	221	(3)
Notes	224	(20)
Bibliography	244	(13)
Index	257