Question

conclusion of citizenship

Answer 1

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or part of a nation. A person may have multiple citizenships and a person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless.

Answer 2

This concluding chapter summarizes the book’s critique of a view of civic education that has become orthodox among contemporary political and educational theorists. On that view, education for civic character, although essential for the reproduction of a healthy liberal democratic polity, should not extend beyond inculcating in children the basic and universal moral values that constitute the ideal of liberal democracy itself. This orthodox view, with its associated ideal of critically autonomous citizenship, makes unrealistic demands of the human capacities for autonomous reasoning and moral motivation. We need to steer a judicious path between excesses and deficiencies of critically autonomous citizenship. The chapter ends by tentatively sketching some likely practical implications of the main theoretical conclusions of the book.

Keywords:   civic education, character education, civic virtue, autonomy, critical thinking, moral motivation, citizenship, liberalism, liberal democracy