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ERIC Number: EJ1449764
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Oct
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
EISSN: EISSN-1741-5446
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Populist Challenges to Truth and Democracy Met with Pragmatist Alternatives in Citizenship Education
Sarah M. Stitzlein
Educational Theory, v74 n5 p595-618 2024
Populists employ truth as a tool for aligning the people against the elite. Citizenship education rarely takes up critiques of liberal democracy, discussions of populism, or conversations about what truth is. This paper provides an alternative pragmatist vision of truth that builds on the populist call for democracy to better reflect the will of the people, while also pushing back against the harms potentially caused by populism. Students today need to learn how populism works performatively and through discourse. But more importantly, they also need to learn how to engage with populism by taking up some of the real challenges it poses in their communities today. Citizenship education that overtly talks about how truth operates and demonstrates how inquiry can be used to determine "what works" better prepares students for the flawed democracy we see at play today and provides pathways for improving it in the future.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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