ABSTRACT
Two political philosophies have in large measure shaped the professional and academic discussion of citizenship education-civic republicanism and comprehensive liberalism. Whatever their differences, they share a “static” conception of the societies and ideologies into which citizens are to be initiated. According to this view, political communities and their respective conceptions of the good life are more or less uniform, stable, and uncontested. Many of today’s societies, however, are subject to a variety of dynamic tensions and confl icts arising from deep internal divisions resulting, for example, from grossly unequal distribution of wealth or various forms of cultural misrecognition. Yet the scholarly and professional literature concerned with creating citizens has tended either to ignore the relation between citizenship education and social confl ict or to view the former as an antidote to the latter. This volume proposes to address this defi ciency by examining citizenship education around the globe and in Israel from the perspectives of several different confl ict theories.
