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Critical Review, 1996
Abstract The idea of a purely civic nationalism has attracted Western scholars, most of whom rightly disdain the myths that sustain ethnonationalist theories of political community. Civic nationalism is particularly attractive to many Americans, whose peculiar national heritage encourages the delusion that their mutual association is based solely on ...
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Abstract The idea of a purely civic nationalism has attracted Western scholars, most of whom rightly disdain the myths that sustain ethnonationalist theories of political community. Civic nationalism is particularly attractive to many Americans, whose peculiar national heritage encourages the delusion that their mutual association is based solely on ...
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Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait
Educational Researcher, 2021Are today’s students able to discern quality information from sham online? In the largest investigation of its kind, we administered an assessment to 3,446 high school students. Equipped with a live internet connection, the students responded to six constructed-response tasks. The students struggled on all of them.
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A National Theory of Civic Duty
2022This chapter addresses why some people feel a sense of civic duty to engage, contribute, and even sacrifice for their democracies while others do not. It analyzes the approach to why people feel a sense of civic duty to their democracies, which focuses on the role of national belonging.
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The Decembrists and the Concept of a Civic Nation
Nationalities Papers, 2007Long live the constitution! Long live the republic! Long live the people! Perish the nobility and the rank of the czar!Nationalism in the East has long been considered to be different from nationalism in the West. Although Hans Kohn's famous dichotomy has been challenged, it still determines the way most people look at Eastern nationalism.
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Civic Nationalism and Language Policy
Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2009Civic nationhood is meant to describe a political identity built around shared citizenship in a liberal-democratic state.1 A "civic nation," in this sense, need not be unified by commonalities of language or culture (where "culture" refers to the traditions and customs of a particular national group).
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American National Standards for civics as a factor in education for civic engagement
Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, 2022Russian Federal Educational Standards 2021 place high demands on schoolchildren as individuals with a number of traits and competencies necessary for an active citizen. It seems ex-pedient to study not only domestic, but also international experience of civic education.
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Civic and ethnic nationalism in Pakistan.
2022In this thesis, Pakistan's experience with nationalism is studied by highlighting the interplay of civic, ethnic, and religious nationalism. This study also focuses on understanding education's role in creating a shared nationalism. This thesis has employed Gellner's well-developed argument on nationalism, his zones of nationalism to examine civic ...
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Civic Engagement and National Belonging
International Journal of Public Administration, 2007In his essay “All Community Is Local,” political scientist William Schambra urges that researchers and activists “direct our gaze away from the failed project of national community and focus once a...
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Freemasonry as a playground for civic nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, 2014AbstractThis article explores correspondences between the ideals of ‘civic nationalism’ (hereafterCN) and the practices ofFreemasonry, a worldwide male fraternity.Freemasons practice an elitist stance of civilizing the self, translated into a collective mission of society‐building.
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History, Civics and National Consciousness
Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 1997To the question — ‘What is the purpose of History?’— the author of this essay replies that for a long time its main aim has been to pass on ‘une conscience nationale’ (a national consciousness), an awareness of nationhood, and that this is what was meant by ’éducation civique‘, i.e. the creation of good, patriotic citizens.
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