Civic Education and Liberal Democracy: Making Post-Normative Citizens in Normative Political Spaces

This text explores the inherent tension in civic education.

There is a surging belief in contemporary European society that liberal democracy should work harder to reproduce the civic and normative setups of national populations through public education.

The cardinal notion is that education remains the best means to accomplish this end, and educational regimes appropriate tools to make the young more tolerant, civic, democratic, communal, cosmopolitan, and prone to engaged activism.

This book is concerned with the ambiguities that strain standard visions of civic education and educational statehood.