Law As Civic Education - Reimagining a K Curriculum for Democratic Citizenship Individual

This book argues that-far from abandoning the oft-emphasized, but little realized promise of civic education as a means of cultivating critical thinking skills and democratic character-we should embrace it, proposing a reimagined civic education founded in teaching students in primary and secondary school law and legal reasoning.

List of contents

Part I: Background, Context, and Guiding Lights 1. The Current Conundrum in the Citizen Education Project 2. Building a Cogent Educational Philosophy for a New Civic Education 3. Contextualizing a New Critical Education within the Roots of the Historic Civic Education Project Part II: A New Proposal 4. An Empowering Civic Education through Law Learning 5. A Critical Lens: Addressing Counterarguments 6. Combatting Apathy; Combatting Fracturing

About the author

Ariel J. Liberman is Assistant Professor of Law and Legal Studies in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Ariel Liberman, Ariel (Ariel J. Liberman Is Assistant Pr Liberman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032975825
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3297582-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Research in Character and Virtue Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, LAW / Civil Procedure, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, LAW / Legal Education, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Political science & theory, Secondary Schools, Moral and social purpose of education, Political science and theory, Teaching of a specific subject, Moral & social purpose of education, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general