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STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 167-185Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11217-019-09689-6
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Political education; Ideological education; Civics education; Zvi Lamm
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Educating students to become participatory citizens in their country is one of the explicit tasks of public education in a democratic-liberal state. In this article, I use civics education in Israel as a case study for the examination of the justification and the practicability of implementing political education in schools, as opposed to implementing its rivals -ideological education or a-political education. I argue that a liberal-democratic stance and its educational implication-political education-are two concepts submerged in ideology, and, as a result, political education in schools is not ideology-free. I also argue that the common kind of political-civic education in Israel is irrelevant for the significant minorities of Palestinian and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish citizens. Revealing the emptiness and futility of present-day political-civil education leads me to propose to separate this education into different ideological-educational streams, allowing each of them to emphasize its ideology in civil-political education.
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