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Educating Political Adversaries - Educating Political Emotions

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What were traditional models of liberal citizenship education focussed on? And why?

On the development of reasoning abilities for the public sphere; which was masculinist > education of abilities culturally associated with masculien values.

Why? The emotions were considered to belong to the private, domestic realm, and to be associated with the feminine.

What would emotional education for political education based on agonistic pluralism focus on?

On understanding the cultural significance and significations of emotions, the way they are collaboratively constructed.

Which two types of emotions do students need to learn to distinguish?

Emotions on behalf of themselves and,
Emotions on behalf of a political collective, on behalf of views for the social order.

Boler distinguishes "moral anger" from "defensive anger", what are they?

Defensive anger: a defense against a felt threat to our precarious identities.

Moral anger: to feel anger on behalf of injustices committed against those in less powerful social positions.

Which emotions are relevant for political education?

“The emotions relevant to political education are not those associated with a personal sense of entitlement or with a collective based on an essentialist conception of identity, but rather emotions on behalf of a political collective, associated with views of particular hegemonic social relations” (p.277).

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4.1 Ruitenberg; Educating polical adversaries: Chantal Mouffe and Radical Democratic Citizenship Education

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