TEACHING TO UNLEARN COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO MAKE A CLAIM TO COMMUNITY

In this essay Duck‐Joo Kwak explores a moral perfectionist approach to citizenship education, which is distinct from liberal and communitarian models. One of educational challenges to this approach is how to cultivate our students' sense of membership, which is shaped by a thick sense of the go...

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Published in:Educational theory 2010-08, Vol.60 (4), p.405-417
Main Author: Kwak, Duck-Joo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Citizenship Education
Community
Community Relations
Education
Educational Philosophy
Educational Theories
Ethical Instruction
Ethics
Individual Differences
Literacy
Moral Issues
Moral Values
Personality
Philosophy of language
Political Attitudes
Political Socialization
Politics
Reflection
Reflexivity
Sense of Community
Society
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Values Education
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Summary:In this essay Duck‐Joo Kwak explores a moral perfectionist approach to citizenship education, which is distinct from liberal and communitarian models. One of educational challenges to this approach is how to cultivate our students' sense of membership, which is shaped by a thick sense of the good life, while being not merely compatible with but open to the pluralist perspective. Kwak maintains that what is required for this form of membership to society or community is our future citizens' ability to engage in highly self‐reflexive philosophical reflection on the human condition; such reflection gives them the skills necessary to live up to the tension between different selves of diverse origins or within a divided self. Examining Stanley Cavell's view of political education as an exemplar of the moral perfectionist approach to citizenship education, Kwak shows how the practice of his ordinary language philosophy can be a good way to cultivate this ability by teaching us how to “speak for others” by way of “speaking for oneself.”
ISSN:0013-2004
1741-5446
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-5446.2010.00367.x