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Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to p...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ben-Porath, Sigal R., 1967-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
War and education.
Educational change.
Citizenship > Study and teaching.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
EDUCATION > Aims & Objectives.
Citoyennete > Étude et enseignement.
Enseignement > Reforme.
Éducation et guerre.
Éducation à la citoyennete.
School improvement programs.
Civics > Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes. Perhaps the most worrisome one, Ben-Porath contends, is a growing emphasis in schools and elsewhere on social conformity, on tendentious teaching of history, and on drawing stark distinctions between them and us. As she writes, "The varying characteri
Description matérielle:1 online resource (176 pages).
ISBN:9781400827183

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