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This paper documents student responses to the central goal of my course Politics and Literature. In this course I teach students the possibilities of political and social responsibility. Social justice implies a process of participation and personal responsibility for political consequences that can be nurtured independent of the debate about particular substantive outcomes. In my course, students explore this process of shifting from personal values to political legitimacy. There are three pedagogical goals related to social justice and embedded in the course curriculum. First, students evaluate personal values in their interpersonal relations, and then compare these values with outcomes they observe in the political sphere. Secondly, students project their own values onto the political sphere and analyze potential negative as well as positive consequences. Finally students evaluate the extent to which the political process is capable of fulfilling their expectations and ideals attached to social justice.
Through fiction, students are free from measurements, data, jargon, and the rigor of formal presentation in political science arguments. Important tools of our discipline are suspended purposely in order to open up personal connection to the moral possibilities. Characters present an opportunity to analyze an array of personal values and moral positions with the social and political implications explored. For example, “Anil’s Ghost” is the fictional account of Sri Lanka’s civil war. It addresses the connection between personal and political forgiveness and compensation. Students debate the limits and opportunities of the political process in realizing their values of social justice. Through novels, students explore their emotional attachments (detachments) to the political sphere. Through emotional sensitivities as much as intellectual analysis, students become newly attuned to personal and collective responsibility in politics. |
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| Frederking, Lauretta. "Teaching a Process for Citizen Responsibility and Social Justice: From Individual Morality to Political Legitimacy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p11479_index.html> |
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| Frederking, L. "Teaching a Process for Citizen Responsibility and Social Justice: From Individual Morality to Political Legitimacy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference Online <PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p11479_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper documents student responses to the central goal of my course Politics and Literature. In this course I teach students the possibilities of political and social responsibility. Social justice implies a process of participation and personal responsibility for political consequences that can be nurtured independent of the debate about particular substantive outcomes. In my course, students explore this process of shifting from personal values to political legitimacy. There are three pedagogical goals related to social justice and embedded in the course curriculum. First, students evaluate personal values in their interpersonal relations, and then compare these values with outcomes they observe in the political sphere. Secondly, students project their own values onto the political sphere and analyze potential negative as well as positive consequences. Finally students evaluate the extent to which the political process is capable of fulfilling their expectations and ideals attached to social justice.
Through fiction, students are free from measurements, data, jargon, and the rigor of formal presentation in political science arguments. Important tools of our discipline are suspended purposely in order to open up personal connection to the moral possibilities. Characters present an opportunity to analyze an array of personal values and moral positions with the social and political implications explored. For example, “Anil’s Ghost” is the fictional account of Sri Lanka’s civil war. It addresses the connection between personal and political forgiveness and compensation. Students debate the limits and opportunities of the political process in realizing their values of social justice. Through novels, students explore their emotional attachments (detachments) to the political sphere. Through emotional sensitivities as much as intellectual analysis, students become newly attuned to personal and collective responsibility in politics. |
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| From Individual Morality to Political Legitimacy: Teaching a Process for Social Justice Lauretta Conklin Frederking Assistant Professo The University of Portland frederki@up.edu From Individual Morality to Political Legitimacy: Teaching a process for social justice Social justice connotes substantive goals that are subject to cultural interpretation and political context. For example some see social justice as tolerance for religious differences while others see social justice as secularism manifest as intolerance of certain religious practices. Recent legislation in France bans headscarves |
| Robert. Making Democracy Work Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993. Putnam Robert. Bowling Alone. New York: Simon & Schuster 2000. Rosenstone Steven J. and John Mark Hansen. Mobilisation Participation and Democracy in America. New York: Macmillan 1993. Schelling Thomas. Micromotives and Macrobehavior. New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1978. Streeck Wolfgang. 1992 Social Institutions and Economic Performance Studies of Industrial Relations in Advanced Capitalist Economies (London: Sage Publications). Teixeira Ruy A. The Disappearing American |
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