ADVANCED IDEAS ABOUT DEMOCRACY - TOWARD A PLURALIST CONCEPTION OF CITIZEN EDUCATION

Citizenship education is probably the most popular stated mission for public schooling in the United States, but it rests on a feeble concep tion of democratic citizenship that skirts social and cultural diversi ty. The effect, oddly enough, is a citizenship education that is uncle ar about its relationship with multicultural education, and sometimes positioned defensively toward it. here I outline a conception of democ ratic citizenship that is appropriate to pluralist societies - a conce ption on which a renewed, deepened citizenship education might proceed .