Morality, civics, and citizenship: Values and virtues in modern democracies

Educational Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 405-418

  Smith, Stacy ^a  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 78649393849     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2000.00405.x     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Robert Heslep, Moral Education for Americans (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995). This book will be referred to as MEA in the text for all subsequent citations.
2. Richard Smith and Paul Standish, eds., Teaching Right and Wrong: Moral Education in ihc balance (Oakhill: Trent ham Books, 1997). This book will he referred to as TRW in the text for all subsequent citations.
3. Patricia White, Civic Virtues and Public Schooling: Educating Citizens for a Democratic Society (New York: Teachers College Press, 1996). This hook will he referred to as CVI'S in the text for all subsequent citations.
4. Kerry Kennedy, ed., Citizenship Education and the Modern State (London: Falmer Press, 1997). This book will he referred to as CEMS in the text for all subsequent citations.
5. Erik W. Robelen, "Educating for Democratic Life, "ASCD Infobrief, Issue 13 (June 1998): 3.
6. See, for example, Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Eithics (New York: Routledge, 1992).
7. Seyla Benhabib, "Towaid a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy, "in Democracy and Difference: Contesting the boundaries of the Political ed. Seyla Benhabib (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 76.
8. White draws ihis definition from Anthony Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 84.
9. See, for example, John Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: The Free Press, 1916).
10. My use of the term "capacity" here is intended to denote something along the lines of an ability, capability, or skill whereas White's emphasis on "dispositions" as those things falling somewhere between capacities and actions stresses an actor's tendency to make use of his/her capacities.
11. Kennedy claims that "the distinction between citizenship e-Jucation and civics education is an important one-the latter refers largely to formal programs of instruction while the former is broader and encompasses the multiple ways in which citizens are encouraged to pursue their roles in a democratic society" [CEMS, vii). I am confining my elaboration of the terms, however, to a more general distinction between moral and civic education that captures shared meanings across the four texts discussed in this essay. Insofar as "civic"
12. John Dewey, Education Today (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940), 355.
13. Geoffrey Canada, FistStickKnifeGun: A Personul History of Violence in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), 3-6.