Current Liberal Understandings of Citizenship Education

Abstract

Literature on citizenship education abounds. In this chapter we do not intend to revisit the plethora of ideas presented on liberal conceptions of citizenship education, as that would be an arduous task on its own. Rather, we envisage to revisit some of the major contributions on citizenship education, in particular how the practices of deliberation, compassion and responsibility have guided the rights, responsibilities and belonging discourses that have been linked to citizenship education in the past two decades.