History, Citizenship, and Democracy
Schnapper, Dominique
History, Citizenship, and Democracy - 2001.
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What becomes of the teaching of history while Europe is being constructed? How are the common values that cement the consolidation of democratic societies transmitted? In historical nations, dominated by their political project, the teaching of history contributes to transmitting national values. Today it is important that it contributes, through the knowledge of the past and thinking, to transmitting not so much national as civic values, those of citizenship. It is a reflective and critical teaching ' and not normative ' that has to be invented, that transmits the sense of universal civic values and at the same time the legitimacy of the attachment of each people to their past and culture, and the knowledge and respect of other countries and other cultures. A teaching that does not cover up what the past was, its grandeur and its crimes, but provides the means to go beyond.
History, Citizenship, and Democracy - 2001.
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What becomes of the teaching of history while Europe is being constructed? How are the common values that cement the consolidation of democratic societies transmitted? In historical nations, dominated by their political project, the teaching of history contributes to transmitting national values. Today it is important that it contributes, through the knowledge of the past and thinking, to transmitting not so much national as civic values, those of citizenship. It is a reflective and critical teaching ' and not normative ' that has to be invented, that transmits the sense of universal civic values and at the same time the legitimacy of the attachment of each people to their past and culture, and the knowledge and respect of other countries and other cultures. A teaching that does not cover up what the past was, its grandeur and its crimes, but provides the means to go beyond.
Réseaux sociaux