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| Autor/in | Macedo, Stephen |
|---|---|
| Titel | Crafting Good Citizens |
| Quelle | In: Education Next, 4 (2004) 2, S.10-15 (6 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1539-9664 |
| Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Public Policy; Intellectual Freedom; Citizenship Education; High School Seniors; Public Education; Public Schools; Citizen Participation |
| Abstract | Americans are rightly concerned that schools are not providing students with the knowledge and habits necessary to be good citizens. With the notable exception of volunteer activity, every form of civic engagement among the young has declined. As a response, increasing attention is being paid to civic education in the schools. But strangely, at a moment when the schools seem capable of becoming a bulwark against civic "dis"engagement among the young, a rising chorus of skeptics is casting doubt on the whole enterprise of civic education. In practice, they charge, civic education is ineffective and potentially harmful. Critics also question the very idea of government-sponsored civic education, arguing that it threatens basic principles of intellectual freedom. To assess civic education as public policy, three fundamental questions should be considered: (1) Is it true that civic education makes no difference or even undermines students' interest and participation in civic life?; (2) Have the efforts to promote civic engagement been sufficient to conclude that the experiment has failed?; (3) Are the differences in values among Americans truly so vast that it will be impossible to develop a reasonable public consensus on the goals of civic education? The author argues that the answers to each of these questions give everyone substantial reasons to doubt the skeptical position on civic education. However, the author is not at all sure that those who wish to eliminate civics from the public schools care much about finding out the facts. Their interest in maligning civic education may stem from a desire not to improve the content of public schooling but to undermine public institutions altogether. (ERIC). |
| Anmerkungen | Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010. Tel: 800-935-2882; Fax: 650-723-8626; e-mail: educationnext@hoover.stanford.edu; Web site: http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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