A vindication of transnational democratic education – replies to Michael Festl, Martin Beckstein and Michael Geiss. Issue 3 (4th December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Culp, Julian
• Is Part Of: Ethics & global politics. Volume 13:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 155
• Page End: 174
• Publication Date: 2020-12-04
• Subjects: Educational justice -- citizenship education -- liberal education -- global justice -- global democracy; International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- Periodicals; Ethics -- Periodicals; Ethics; International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Political ethics; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 172.4
• DOI: 10.1080/16544951.2020.1821531
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1654-6369

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In Democratic Education in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2019) I defend a discourse theory of global justice as the appropriate normative 1 ground for conceiving educational justice and citizenship education under conditions of economic and political globalization. In addition, I articulate democratic conceptions of global educational justice and citizenship education that recognize a moral-political right to democratically adequate education and call for the creation of transnational democratic consciousness. Based on these conceptions I spell out school practices such as historically informed, cross-cultural learning within socially diverse settings that would contribute to realizing these conceptions. In this article I reply to liberal perfectionist, communitarian-conservative and empiricist-historical critiques of Democratic Education in a Globalized World from Michael Festl, Martin Beckstein and Michael Geiss, respectively. I emphasize the feasibility of injustice-reducing educational practices, I explain how a discourse theory of justice accommodates considerations of both the good and the right, and I justify why the grim record of past educational experience does not render pointless the pursuit of progressive aims through education.