Provider: Ingenta Connect Database: Ingenta Connect Content: application/x-research-info-systems TY - ABST AU - Boman, Ylva TI - The struggle between conflicting beliefs: on the promise of education JO - Journal of Curriculum Studies PY - 2006-09-01T00:00:00/// VL - 38 IS - 5 SP - 545 EP - 568 KW - multiculturalism KW - political education KW - citizenship education KW - Habermas KW - citizenship KW - political socialization N2 - Education is thought to provide a certain outcome—a promise . I argue that a promise that education will counteract cultural and social disintegration involves a risk of engendering narrow social and cultural incorporation. On what reasonable basis could education contribute to civic life, when contemporary Western society is represented by a diversity of lifestyles and beliefs, with roots in different traditions? Habermas's communicative theory and theory of procedural democracy contain a normative core of presuppositions that function as enabling conditions for practical discourse to take place under such conditions. However, Habermas's perspective conceptualizes these presuppositions as features of a political culture whose ‘accommodating quality' citizens need to be able to expect sociologically. Within a political and moral theory, Habermas only counts on these preconditions implicitly, but he does hope for such accommodating qualities to be fulfilled in a process of socialization and in political forms of life. UR - https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/tcus/2006/00000038/00000005/art00004 M3 - doi:10.1080/00220270600670783 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/00220270600670783 ER -