| Título: | Conformity and the questioning of authority in the citizenship education debates |
| Autores: | McCowan, Tristan |
| Fecha: | 2006-04-08 |
| Publicador: | Educate: the journal of doctoral research in education |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Tema: | No aplica |
| Descripción: | A key question that providers of citizenship education must face is the extent to which they should be promoting either critical attitudes or allegiance to the State. While some argue that cohesion and unity are necessary for the polity to function, others observe that a conforming and unquestioning population will not choose the best governments and keep those governments democratically accountable. This paper reviews literature from three currents within citizenship education – liberal democracy, civic republicanism and approaches based on the ideas of Paolo Freire – identifying widely differing emphases within each as well as between them. Critical attitudes are seen to be compatible with feelings of shared membership, but are unlikely to be promoted by governments when there is fear of internal unrest or external threat. While critical thinking is desirable in educational and political terms, the delivery of citizenship education programmes on this basis presents substantial challenges. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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