Civility and Democratic Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The “Plight of Civility” Today

   • Andrew Peterson

   Pages 1-12

3. Civil Conduct: Tolerance, Deliberation and the Possibility of “Justified Incivility”

   • Andrew Peterson

   Pages 13-34

4. Civility and Mutual Fellow-Feeling

   • Andrew Peterson

   Pages 35-49

5. Educating Civility in Schools

   • Andrew Peterson

   Pages 51-67

6. Moving Beyond the “Plight of Civility” and Future Research on Civility and Democratic Education

   • Andrew Peterson

   Pages 69-73

This book explores how and why civility contributes to a vibrant democratic society, and how it can be fostered and cultivated as a key part of democratic education. It suggests that civility only makes sense as a civic virtue if it is conceived in relation to civic friendship, concord and fellow-feeling. This book offers a timely snapshot of civility as a pressing, yet enduring, concern in democratic life and education. It elucidates a virtue-based conceptualization of civility and its place within democratic education, and makes use of real-life examples and cases to illustrate its arguments and to engage a range of readers. In short, this book is interested in what civility is and how schools can and do cultivate civility. 

• Civility in school
• moral education
• civic and citizenship education
• civility for democratic Education
• civic friendship
• civil deliberation
• incivility
• civic virtue
• democratic virtue

• Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  Andrew Peterson

Andrew Peterson is Professor of Character and Citizenship Education at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham. With an international reputation and standing in the fields of character and citizenship education his latest books include Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Schools, Children and Communities, The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education (co-edited with Garth Stahl and Hannah Soong), The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice (co-edited with Robert Hattam, Michalinos Zembylas and James Arthur) and Civics and Citizenship in Australia: Challenges, Practices and International Perspectives (co-edited with Libby Tudball). He is also Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of South Australia.

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