Civic Education and Liberal Democracy Making Post-Normative Citizens in Normative Political Spaces /

• Main Author: Strandbrink, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
• Subjects: Education.; Democracy.; Educational sociology.; Church and education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Religion and Education.; Early Childhood Education.

This book explores the inherent tension in civic education. There is a surging belief in contemporary European society that liberal democracy should work harder to reproduce the civic and normative setups of national populations through public education. The cardinal notion is that education remains...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Civic Education and Liberal Democracy
• 3. Cultural Pluralism and Social Cohesion
• 4. Cosmopolitan and Parochial Value-Making
• 5. Tolerance in Civic and Religious Education
• 6. Education for the Good Life
• 7. Revisiting Civic Education and Liberal Democracy.