ERIC Number: EJ794921
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Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 15
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Unlearning American Patriotism
Miller, Richard W.
Theory and Research in Education, v5 n1 p7-21 2007
Immoral excesses of American foreign policy are so severe and so deep-rooted that American patriotism is now a moral burden. This love, which pulls toward amnesia, wishful thinking and inattention to urgent foreign interests, should be replaced by commitment to a global social movement that seeks to hem in the American empire. Teachers can advance this cause without abusing their positions. But to do so, they must violate distinctive social expectations at different levels of American education. (Contains 9 notes.)
Descriptors: Patriotism, War, Foreign Policy, Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Teacher Attitudes, Political Science, Philosophy, Citizenship Responsibility
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