Conformity and the questioning of authority in the citizenship education debates

dc.creator	Tristan McCowan
dc.date	2006-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:14:59Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:14:59Z
dc.identifier	1477-5557
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ce1873aee68b4773ab4f063f42528adc
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/17276
dc.description	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.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Institute of Education, University of London
dc.relation	http://www.educatejournal.org/index.php?journal=educate&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=36
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1477-5557
dc.source	Educate~, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 19-32 (2006)
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Conformity and the questioning of authority in the citizenship education debates
dc.type	article