Citizenship Education and Liberalism: A State of the Debate Analysis 1990–2010

Summary, in English

What kind of citizenship education, if any, should schools in liberal societies promote? And what ends is such education supposed to serve? Over the last decades a respectable body of literature has emerged to address these and related issues. In this state of the debate analysis we examine a sample of journal articles dealing with these very issues spanning a twenty-year period with the aim to analyse debate patterns and developments in the research field. We first carry out a qualitative analysis where we design a two-dimensional theoretical framework in order to systematise the various liberal debate positions, and make us able to study their justifications, internal tensions and engagements with other positions. In the ensuing quantitative leg of the study we carry out a quantitative bibliometric analysis where we weigh the importance of specific scholars. We finally discuss possible merits and flaws in the research field, as evidenced in and by the analysis.

• Author: Mikael Sundström; Christian Fernández
• Department/s: Department of Political Science
• Publishing year: 2011
• Language: English
• Pages: 363-384
• Publication/Series: Studies in Philosophy and Education
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 4
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• Links: http://www.springerlink.com/content/40u6903658660776/fulltext.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9237-8
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Political Science
• Keywords: Citizenship education; Liberalism; State of the debate; Thick and thin
• Status: Published
• Research group: Politisk teori och metod
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0039-3746