Liberal Civic Education and Multiculturalism

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Nicanor Ramón Fuentes Laíño
IES Antón Losada Diéguez (A Estrada)
Spain
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Vol 37 No 2 (2018), Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ag.37.2.4389
Submitted: 29-10-2017 Accepted: 22-02-2018 Published: 27-04-2018
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This paper is a survey of recent work on liberal-democratic civic education. The main goal is trying to offer an approach to the dilemmas of public schooling in pluralistic societies. Accordingly, these are some points to discuss: How can a liberal-democracy build a common civic identity among group based diversity? Which values could be shared by democratic citizens who are members of different religious, ethnical or linguistic communities? To sum up, this article wants to show the dificulties of public shools in order to educate children in shared civic virtues. Specially, in a social context in which families and churches socializate them in their particular moral values and religious beliefs.

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multicultural democracy, liberal civic education, public school
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