Liberal civic education and religious fundamentalism: the case of God v. John Rawls?
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Liberals should not accommodate dissenters when such accommodation would threaten core liberal values. The advantage of liberalism is that it provides a way of reaching agreement on certain institutional issues based on public reason while accommodating a diversity of moral and religious views. In the case of Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, a group of Christian families objected on religious grounds to a public school reading program that exposed students to diverse viewpoints. Those families should not be accommodated, because to do so would threaten the core values necessary to maintain a free pluralistic system.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1995
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Civic pedagogies and liberal-democratic curricula
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Civic virtues can be promoted through pedagogy rather than through a specific curriculum. In this way, liberal-democratic desiderata for civic education can be met without incurring fundamentalist objections to curricular content. Responses of Amy Gutmann and Stephen Macedo to the case of Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Educatin are discussed.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1998
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Civic education and liberal legitimacy
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Civic education must be designed to promote citizen autonomy to be supportive of the legitimacy of a liberal state. Liberal legitimacy requires the free assent of citizens, but civic education undermines autonomy if it inculcates attitudes of loyalty or obedience to government without also promoting critical reflection.
Publication Name: Ethics
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 0014-1704
Year: 1998
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