Teaching Citizenship [electronic resource] : The Liberal Dilemma / Jason A. Scorza.
Liberal democratic states, like all complex communities, are constantly forced to make hard choices between incommensurable values. In this instance, the choice appears to be between personal freedom and autonomy, on one hand, and civic virtue and good citizenship, on the other. To promote a reasona...
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| 520 | |a Liberal democratic states, like all complex communities, are constantly forced to make hard choices between incommensurable values. In this instance, the choice appears to be between personal freedom and autonomy, on one hand, and civic virtue and good citizenship, on the other. To promote a reasonably high level of civic virtue and good citizenship, freedom and autonomy may need to be limited in appreciable ways. Likewise, to secure a high level of freedom and autonomy, liberal democratic societies will likely have to endure a scarcity of virtue. This paper argues that liberal democratic states may safely promote civic education, but only when it is based on civic pluralism, as opposed to some unitary scheme. Young citizens (at about secondary education level) could be exposed to a range of rival views of good citizenship, rather than indoctrinated into any officially prescribed view. Similarly, the workings of the current U.S. political system could be presented with explicit reference to different modes of political participation. The paper examines prominent civic and liberal theories of civic education and argues that neither is likely to provide a sufficient pool of civic capital for liberal democracies. It limits discussion to a few representative figures. The paper elaborates on the suggestion that liberal democracies are best served by civic education based on civic pluralism. Finally, it explains why (and how) the number and range of views of good citizenship presented to young citizens must be limited, even within a pluralistic scheme of civic education. Includes 73 notes. (BT) | ||
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