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  • Citizenship education and the liberal paradigm
    Štrajn, Darko
    Considering that already in the industrial society education had become generally accessible, and considering that school systems took away a lot of family's functions, this system got targeted by ... enormous demands regarding the youth's socialisation. Obviously, as Neil Postman puts in his essay on "the end of education," public school is creating the public. Citizens of contemporary societies (with a very big exceptions of the citizens of the third world countries), are generally socialised by family and school. As one link of this bond of socialisation gets weaker, the public attention turns towards the other link, which is a common matter, therefore, a matter of politics. It is in this field that the current global debate on citizenship education is conducted. It looks like that the concept of citizenship education, which is very controversially understood on one hand as an education of autonomous individuals and as a kind of patriotic education on the other hand, is never really finally fully articulated. Therefore it looks like that an argumentation on a basic meaning of the citizenship education, which is inspired in the liberal tradition, supports the concept of such education, which becomes somehow in dispensable for democracy.
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2002
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 972887