Popular Sovereignty and Civic Education

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4792137
AutoresIan Hunter (0000-0002-9919-3652, Griffith University), Denise Meredyth (0000-0002-8587-9880, Swinburne University of Technology)
Año2000
Volumen43
Número9
Páginas1462-1485
Fecha de publicación2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027640021955991
OpenAlexW2161666149
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas26

This article addresses some of the problems inherent in attempts to understand citizenship education through the concept of popular sovereignty and the formation of self-governing citizens. It does so via a historical investigation of the processes responsible for the separation of sovereignty and government and sovereignty and moral truth in the early modern state. It is argued that in losing sight of the importance of these separations for the formation of liberal pluralist states, current philosophical liberalism risks turning the school system into an instrument of moral coercion, jeopardizing its role as an instrument of social governance

Citizenship · Coercion (linguistics) · Corporate governance · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Popular sovereignty · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religious Education and Schools