The Unproductiveness of Political Conflict in Education: A Nussbaumian Alternative to Agonistic Citizenship Education

Autor/inn/en	Leiviskä, Anniina; Pyy, Iida
Titel	The Unproductiveness of Political Conflict in Education: A Nussbaumian Alternative to Agonistic Citizenship Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55 (2021) 4-5, S.577-588 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Leiviskä, Anniina) ORCID (Pyy, Iida)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/1467-9752.12512
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Politics; Conflict; Democracy; Educational Philosophy; Political Issues; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Politik; Konflikt; Demokratie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Politischer Faktor
Abstract	In many contemporary democracies, political conflict and polarisation have become defining features of the political culture. Similarly, drawing especially from Chantal Mouffe's agonistic pluralism and her more recent left populism, many philosophers of education have argued that political conflict and the attendant political emotions should be given a legitimate place in citizenship education. In this article, we challenge the agonistic model of citizenship education and the central role that political conflict plays in it. We argue that citizenship education that focusses on conflictual identity formations risks creating antagonism rather than dissolving it, this having problematic repercussions for the democratic culture in a broader sense. Deriving from Martha Nussbaum's understanding of democratic politics and her view of the role of emotions in political mobilisation, we suggest that citizenship education should take part in shaping the way students come to understand the nature of the political: as a collective striving towards shared goals, supported by constructive political emotions, rather than a conflictual relation between 'us' and 'them'. Finally, we discuss the educational potential associated with "Fridays for Future" and "Black Lives Matter" movements with the intention of demonstrating the significance of Nussbaum's thinking in relation to today's burning political issues. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01