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Educating the Spirit of Activism: A "Critical" Civic Education
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In this article, the authors focus on the characteristics individuals should possess to participate in the preexisting democracy; these skills include the ability to listen carefully, reasonably reflect and weigh evidence, articulate one's demands and concerns in the public sphere, and so forth.Abstract:
Often when philosophers of education address the issue of civic education, they focus on the characteristics individuals should possess to participate in the preexisting democracy; these skills include the ability to listen carefully, reasonably reflect and weigh evidence, articulate one’s demands and concerns in the public sphere, and so forth However, little consideration is given to the type of collective sensibility necessary to move toward the more ideal society This article aims to broaden our conception of civic education by detailing the type of citizen that is necessary to create and maintain an ideal society—a deep socialist democracyread more
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Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age@@@The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
TL;DR: The field of collective action has been studied extensively in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the construction of collective actions and the process of collective identity, as well as their meaning and meaning.
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The morality of freedom
TL;DR: The idea of speculative reason has been used to resist the moral concept of freedom of choice for a long time as discussed by the authors, and to attack the moral concepts of freedom and, if possible, render it suspect.
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Class and Schools - Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap
TL;DR: Class and Schools as mentioned in this paper is a recent book focusing on closing the achievement gap between Black and White students, focusing on social class differences in raising children, and cultural differences between black and white students.
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The Morality of Freedom
TL;DR: The problem of political freedom is addressed in this paper, where the bounds of authority authority and reason the justification of authority the authority of states, anti-perfectionism neutral political concern the exclusion of ideals.
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Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-respect, and proposes an alternate model to assess human development: the Capabilities Approach.
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Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics
TL;DR: The authors surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasizes its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture.
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Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age@@@The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society
TL;DR: The field of collective action has been studied extensively in the last few decades as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the construction of collective actions and the process of collective identity, as well as their meaning and meaning.