Sigal Ben-Porath
Biographic Data
| ID | 1911645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sigal Ben-Porath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sigal |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Porath |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-PORATH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3014-6388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Listening to Students
How to depolarize your students
Democratic equality and higher education
Learning to Avoid Extremism
Democracies are calling on schools to respond to a rise in extremist ideologies and actions. In this article Sigal Ben‐Porath situates the rise in extremism within the broader context of political polarization. She suggests that the latter is a more appropriate target for school intervention than the former. She further suggests that addressing polarization can result in a reduction in extremism, and that polarization can be addressed by refocusi…
A broader conception of school choice
Historically, debates about educational choice have wrestled with big, unresolved tensions that lie at the heart of American life, having to do with individual rights, community obligations, public and private interests, religious freedoms, and more. But in recent years, school reformers have tended to talk about choice as though it referred only to vouchers and charter schools, which provide benefits to a small number of individual children, whi…
Making Up Our Mind
Campus Free Speech in Polarised Times
Tensions around open expression at universities in the United States and around the world arise mainly from two sources. Campus members increasingly call to restrict hurtful and hate-based speech, and demand silencing, ‘cancelling’ or ‘de-platforming’ outside speakers and campus members who espouse extreme ideological views. At the same time, public and political actors from outside the university attempt to undermine its independence by demandin…
Disparities in Modes and Content of Civic Engagement
Objective We describe disparities in civic engagement along two axes: the modal, describing the extent to which civic engagement is structured, and its content, describing the extent to which civic engagement has partisan objectives. Accordingly, this structure creates four domains of civic engagement: associational–partisan (e.g., voting), social–partisan (e.g., boycotting), associational–civic (e.g., participating in parent–teacher organization…
Democratic Education
Modern democracies need an educated citizenry to survive and to thrive. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, “it expects what never was and what never will be.” Democratic societies are both enriched and challenged by a diverse citizenry. Democratic education encompasses the varied institutional structures and curricular contents that are suitable for educating free citizens of…
Paternalism
Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considerable controversy at least since John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Mill famously decried paternalism of any kind, whether carried out by private individuals or the state. In th…
Wartime citizenship
This paper examines the connections among compatriots, their conceptualization and the effects that war has on the moral realities of nationality. Recent conceptions of citizenship, and particularly the view that citizenship is an aspect of personal identity, are considered in light of the demands that wartime creates within a nation. I focus on the notion of citizenship as shared fate as a productive lens to use in the analysis of national affil…
Tough Choices
To what extent should government be permitted to intervene in personal choices? In grappling with this question, liberal theory seeks to balance individual liberty with the advancement of collective goals such as equality. Too often, however, society's obligation to provide meaningful opportunities is overshadowed by its commitment to personal freedom. Tough Choices charts a middle course between freedom-oriented anti-interventionism and equality…
Exit Rights and Entrance Paths
The debate over the accommodation of culture in liberal democracies tends to emphasize exit rights. Autonomy is typically taken as a pre-condition for exit, and public schools are often charged with promoting or facilitating it. I argue that diversity liberals have a more justifiable view than that of autonomy liberals on cultural accommodation, but diversity liberalism too should reframe its view of exit rights. Narrow exit rights that protect b…
Citizenship under Fire
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 …
School Choice as a Bounded Ideal
Journal Article School Choice as a Bounded Ideal Get access Sigal R Ben-Porath Sigal R Ben-Porath University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA Correspondence: Sigal Ben-Porath, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education…
Care Ethics and Dependence—Rethinking Jus Post Bellum
In this essay, Ben-Porath begins from the assumption that just war theory should be extended to include a jus post bellum component. Postwar conduct should be significantly informed by a care ethics perspective, particularly its political aspects as developed by Joan Tronto and others. Care ethics should be extended to the international postwar arena with one significant amendment, namely, weakening the aim of ending dependence
Care Ethics and Dependence— Rethinking Jus Post Bellum
In this essay, Ben-Porath begins from the assumption that just war theory should be extended to include a jus post bellum component. Postwar conduct should be significantly informed by a care ethics perspective, particularly its political aspects as developed by Joan Tronto and others. Care ethics should be extended to the international postwar arena with one significant amendment, namely, weakening the aim of ending dependence
Response to Review of Citizenship under Fire
To Restore American Democracy
To Restore American Democracy: Political Education and the Modern University. Edited by Robert E. Calvert. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 288p. $75.00 cloth, $28.95 paper. Power to the People: Teaching Political Philosophy in Skeptical Times. By Avner de-Shalit. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 224p. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. The authors of these two books are concerned with a similar question, namely, how can scholars support their …
Against the Law
War and Peace Education
Autonomy and Vulnerability
The relationship between adults and children in liberal democracies is based on two flawed assumptions that are widespread: first, that childhood is an impediment, a passing phase of impaired maturity; and second, that children benefit from the proliferation of rights ascribed to them. Social institutions, and particularly the education system, are correspondingly misconstrued. This article focuses on the combined effect of vulnerability and auto…
Allison Dube, Fire with Water
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War and Peace Education
School Choice as a Bounded Ideal
Journal Article School Choice as a Bounded Ideal Get access Sigal R Ben-Porath Sigal R Ben-Porath University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA Correspondence: Sigal Ben-Porath, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education…
Wartime citizenship
This paper examines the connections among compatriots, their conceptualization and the effects that war has on the moral realities of nationality. Recent conceptions of citizenship, and particularly the view that citizenship is an aspect of personal identity, are considered in light of the demands that wartime creates within a nation. I focus on the notion of citizenship as shared fate as a productive lens to use in the analysis of national affil…
Exit Rights and Entrance Paths
The debate over the accommodation of culture in liberal democracies tends to emphasize exit rights. Autonomy is typically taken as a pre-condition for exit, and public schools are often charged with promoting or facilitating it. I argue that diversity liberals have a more justifiable view than that of autonomy liberals on cultural accommodation, but diversity liberalism too should reframe its view of exit rights. Narrow exit rights that protect b…
Autonomy and Vulnerability
The relationship between adults and children in liberal democracies is based on two flawed assumptions that are widespread: first, that childhood is an impediment, a passing phase of impaired maturity; and second, that children benefit from the proliferation of rights ascribed to them. Social institutions, and particularly the education system, are correspondingly misconstrued. This article focuses on the combined effect of vulnerability and auto…
Care Ethics and Dependence— Rethinking Jus Post Bellum
In this essay, Ben-Porath begins from the assumption that just war theory should be extended to include a jus post bellum component. Postwar conduct should be significantly informed by a care ethics perspective, particularly its political aspects as developed by Joan Tronto and others. Care ethics should be extended to the international postwar arena with one significant amendment, namely, weakening the aim of ending dependence
Campus Free Speech in Polarised Times
Tensions around open expression at universities in the United States and around the world arise mainly from two sources. Campus members increasingly call to restrict hurtful and hate-based speech, and demand silencing, ‘cancelling’ or ‘de-platforming’ outside speakers and campus members who espouse extreme ideological views. At the same time, public and political actors from outside the university attempt to undermine its independence by demandin…
Disparities in Modes and Content of Civic Engagement
Objective We describe disparities in civic engagement along two axes: the modal, describing the extent to which civic engagement is structured, and its content, describing the extent to which civic engagement has partisan objectives. Accordingly, this structure creates four domains of civic engagement: associational–partisan (e.g., voting), social–partisan (e.g., boycotting), associational–civic (e.g., participating in parent–teacher organization…
Care Ethics and Dependence—Rethinking Jus Post Bellum
In this essay, Ben-Porath begins from the assumption that just war theory should be extended to include a jus post bellum component. Postwar conduct should be significantly informed by a care ethics perspective, particularly its political aspects as developed by Joan Tronto and others. Care ethics should be extended to the international postwar arena with one significant amendment, namely, weakening the aim of ending dependence
Against the Law
Allison Dube, Fire with Water
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
War and Peace Education
Autonomy and Vulnerability
The relationship between adults and children in liberal democracies is based on two flawed assumptions that are widespread: first, that childhood is an impediment, a passing phase of impaired maturity; and second, that children benefit from the proliferation of rights ascribed to them. Social institutions, and particularly the education system, are correspondingly misconstrued. This article focuses on the combined effect of vulnerability and auto…
Against the Law
To Restore American Democracy
To Restore American Democracy: Political Education and the Modern University. Edited by Robert E. Calvert. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 288p. $75.00 cloth, $28.95 paper. Power to the People: Teaching Political Philosophy in Skeptical Times. By Avner de-Shalit. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 224p. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. The authors of these two books are concerned with a similar question, namely, how can scholars support their …
Care Ethics and Dependence—Rethinking Jus Post Bellum
In this essay, Ben-Porath begins from the assumption that just war theory should be extended to include a jus post bellum component. Postwar conduct should be significantly informed by a care ethics perspective, particularly its political aspects as developed by Joan Tronto and others. Care ethics should be extended to the international postwar arena with one significant amendment, namely, weakening the aim of ending dependence
Care Ethics and Dependence— Rethinking Jus Post Bellum
In this essay, Ben-Porath begins from the assumption that just war theory should be extended to include a jus post bellum component. Postwar conduct should be significantly informed by a care ethics perspective, particularly its political aspects as developed by Joan Tronto and others. Care ethics should be extended to the international postwar arena with one significant amendment, namely, weakening the aim of ending dependence
Response to Review of Citizenship under Fire
Citizenship under Fire
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 …
School Choice as a Bounded Ideal
Journal Article School Choice as a Bounded Ideal Get access Sigal R Ben-Porath Sigal R Ben-Porath University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA Correspondence: Sigal Ben-Porath, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education…
Tough Choices
To what extent should government be permitted to intervene in personal choices? In grappling with this question, liberal theory seeks to balance individual liberty with the advancement of collective goals such as equality. Too often, however, society's obligation to provide meaningful opportunities is overshadowed by its commitment to personal freedom. Tough Choices charts a middle course between freedom-oriented anti-interventionism and equality…
Exit Rights and Entrance Paths
The debate over the accommodation of culture in liberal democracies tends to emphasize exit rights. Autonomy is typically taken as a pre-condition for exit, and public schools are often charged with promoting or facilitating it. I argue that diversity liberals have a more justifiable view than that of autonomy liberals on cultural accommodation, but diversity liberalism too should reframe its view of exit rights. Narrow exit rights that protect b…
Wartime citizenship
This paper examines the connections among compatriots, their conceptualization and the effects that war has on the moral realities of nationality. Recent conceptions of citizenship, and particularly the view that citizenship is an aspect of personal identity, are considered in light of the demands that wartime creates within a nation. I focus on the notion of citizenship as shared fate as a productive lens to use in the analysis of national affil…
Paternalism
Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considerable controversy at least since John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Mill famously decried paternalism of any kind, whether carried out by private individuals or the state. In th…
Democratic Education
Modern democracies need an educated citizenry to survive and to thrive. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, “it expects what never was and what never will be.” Democratic societies are both enriched and challenged by a diverse citizenry. Democratic education encompasses the varied institutional structures and curricular contents that are suitable for educating free citizens of…
Making Up Our Mind
Campus Free Speech in Polarised Times
Tensions around open expression at universities in the United States and around the world arise mainly from two sources. Campus members increasingly call to restrict hurtful and hate-based speech, and demand silencing, ‘cancelling’ or ‘de-platforming’ outside speakers and campus members who espouse extreme ideological views. At the same time, public and political actors from outside the university attempt to undermine its independence by demandin…
Disparities in Modes and Content of Civic Engagement
Objective We describe disparities in civic engagement along two axes: the modal, describing the extent to which civic engagement is structured, and its content, describing the extent to which civic engagement has partisan objectives. Accordingly, this structure creates four domains of civic engagement: associational–partisan (e.g., voting), social–partisan (e.g., boycotting), associational–civic (e.g., participating in parent–teacher organization…
A broader conception of school choice
Historically, debates about educational choice have wrestled with big, unresolved tensions that lie at the heart of American life, having to do with individual rights, community obligations, public and private interests, religious freedoms, and more. But in recent years, school reformers have tended to talk about choice as though it referred only to vouchers and charter schools, which provide benefits to a small number of individual children, whi…
Democratic equality and higher education
Learning to Avoid Extremism
Democracies are calling on schools to respond to a rise in extremist ideologies and actions. In this article Sigal Ben‐Porath situates the rise in extremism within the broader context of political polarization. She suggests that the latter is a more appropriate target for school intervention than the former. She further suggests that addressing polarization can result in a reduction in extremism, and that polarization can be addressed by refocusi…
Listening to Students
How to depolarize your students
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