Citizenship under Fire

Sigal Ben-Porath is assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education and special assistant to the president at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She earned her doctoral degree in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000.

• Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: Citizenship in Wartime 9 CHAPTER 2: Education as War by Other Means 33 CHAPTER 3: Peace Education: Anger Management and Care for the Earth 57 CHAPTER 4: Feminist Contributions to Expansive Education 76 CHAPTER 5: Multicultural Education: Acknowledgment and Forgiveness 93 CHAPTER 6: Expansive Education 113 Notes 131 Index 151

"Sigal Ben-Porath examines the relationship among civics education, war and a quest for peace. She draws on examples from Israel and the US to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of what she regards as the more harmful of these changes."--Talya Halkin, The Jerusalem Post "The topic of this timely and important book is the challenge to democratic commitments and civic education posed by long-term conflict ... Ben-Porath is sensitive to the constraints imposed by public sponsorship of schools, and she has endeavored to find a balance between patriotism and the protection of civil liberties and minority rights. In adopting this stance, she has developed a position that should be acceptable to anyone in a position of authority who can be brought to acknowledge the peril to democracy inherent in protracted conflict."--Randall Curren, Muna Golmohamad, Theory and Research in Education "With Deweyan insight, Sigal Ben-Porath's timely book focuses on the critical challenge of 'democratic education in times of crisis.' ... [It] should be read and discussed widely and will significantly impact the way many of us think about the democratic purposes and possibilities of civic education for the twenty-first century."--Elizabeth Beaumont, Review of Higher Education "This is an important book. It reminds readers that peace is the ultimate goal in times of conflict and that schooling plays a vital role in achieving peace."--Choice "Citizenship under Fire remains an important contribution to literature on democratic citizenship education."--Meg P. Gardinier, Comparative Education Review