Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy

Callan, Eamonn

ISBN 10: 0198292589 / ISBN 13: 9780198292586

Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997

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A little grubby at edges, with some light water marking on fore-edge. Pages very lightly cockled. Some faint damp-marking at edges of jacket. 235 x 155 mm. x, 262 pp. A sound, serviceable reading copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198292589
• ISBN 13: 9780198292586
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.