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Questioning Allegiance - Resituating Civic Education (Paperback)
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Questioning Allegiance - Resituating Civic Education (Paperback)
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Education about living in society and in the world is a vital task
of schools. Yet such civic education is not always critically
examined, and few among us have been encouraged to reflect on our
civic education experiences. Around the world, one's civic
education most often looks like a black box. How it works is
unclear. When human harm, violence, and oppression can be seen in a
wide variety of contexts, it is worth critically examining civic
education. Could it be that civic education is not playing a
helpful role in society? Can it be done differently and better? As
one reflects on the contemporary social world, it is helpful to
examine the assumptions surrounding education for living together,
to think about current modes and possible alternatives. Otherwise,
one might end up promoting allegiance to civic and partisan
entities which are themselves black boxes (the 'nation', the
'people'), failing to notice when and how what goes on in civic
education is morally questionable. This book aims to elucidate some
of the black box of civic education, and focuses on some of its
main operations across contexts. Offering a new framework for
students and academics, this book questions existing thinking and
shifts the focus of attention from the right balance to strike
between local, national, and global allegiances to the more
fundamental question of what counts as 'local', 'national', and
'global', and what might be involved in cultivating allegiances to
them. It looks at allegiance to not just transnational but also
sub-global 'civilisations' and it problematises the notion of the
'local community' in new ways. This book is the 2020 AESA Critics'
Choice Book Award Winner.
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