Citizenship under Fire
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Citizenship
Civic engagement
Civic virtue
Civil society
Classroom
Conflict resolution
Critical thinking
Curriculum
Cynthia Enloe
Deliberation
Democracy
Democratic education
Democratic ideals
Diane Ravitch
Education
Empowerment
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Feminist pedagogy
Feminist theory
Freedom of speech
Gender equality
Gender role
Good citizenship
Guideline
Hannah Arendt
Henry Giroux
Institution
International relations
Iris Marion Young
Just war theory
Learning
Lecture
Left-wing politics
Michael Walzer
Militarism
Multicultural education
Multiculturalism
Narrative
Nation state
National identity
National security
Nationalism
Nationality
Nonviolence
Of Education
Patriotism
Peace education
Peace treaty
Peacebuilding
Peacekeeping
Pedagogy
Philosophy of education
Political philosophy
Political science
Politics
Public Agenda
Public sphere
Reinforcement
Requirement
School
Social Practice
Structural violence
Suggestion
Teacher
Terrorism
Theda Skocpol
War
War effort
World War I
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691141114
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes. Perhaps the most worrisome one, Ben-Porath contends, is a growing emphasis in schools and elsewhere on social conformity, on tendentious teaching of history, and on drawing stark distinctions between them and us. As she writes, "The varying characteristics of citizenship in times of war and peace add up to a distinction between belligerent citizenship, which is typical of democracies in wartime, and the liberal democratic citizenship that is characteristic of more peaceful democracies." Ben-Porath examines how various theories of education--principally peace education, feminist education, and multicultural education--speak to the distinctive challenges of wartime. She argues that none of these theories are satisfactory on their own theoretical terms or would translate easily into practice.
In the final chapter, she lays out her own alternative theory--"expansive education"--which she believes holds out more promise of widening the circles of participation in schools, extending the scope of permissible debate, and diversifying the questions asked about the opinions voiced.
Sigal Ben-Porath is assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education and special assistant to the president at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She earned her doctoral degree in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000.
