Public Leadership: Philosophy

Catalog description

In the US and many other countries, schools are often seen as having a responsibility to prepare students for citizenship in the nation or the world. So how does and should school prepare students for citizenship? In this module we will examine citizenship as a key aim of schooling. The tensions around this and other aims of schooling, the accommodation of difference, and the role of patriotism in education will be explored in relation to the preparation of the next generation of citizens. The overarching goal of the module is to explore how philosophy and theory concerning civic education can be used as a tool to deepen and contextualize problems that educational leaders encounter. The practical skills we will seek to build involve using academic and philosophical writing to analyze (in discourse and in writing) questions at the intersection of civic education and school leadership.