Fostran till frihet : skolans demokratiska värdegrund ur ett habermasianskt perspektiv

• Education has never only been about teaching facts about the world. It has also always been about passing on values to pupils. This aspect of teaching is not fulfilled if pupils only learn the meaning of the favoured values. A teacher should also be able to make his or her pupils believe in them and to act according to them. Thus, teaching is also a kind of political socialisation. The values taught change historically and this change is related to the political history of a society. The point of departure of this article is the fact that it is currently possible to observer signs of such a value transformation. School children are not anymore to become good national patriots, atomistic possessors of negative rights or loyal cogs in the welfare state machinery, but democratic citizens in a radical sense. This article takes Jürgen Habermas’ political theory in Faktizität und Geltung as its point of departure. With the help of Habermas the above-mentioned value transformation will be interpreted and his understanding of democratic citizenship will be discussed. The aim of the article is to use Habermas’ theory to give a general idea of the possibility and meaning of a normative education of democratic citizens.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

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demokrati

transformation

Sociology

Sociologi

Sociologi

Sociology

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