Civil defence education. (Non)specific dangers and destabilisation of actorship in education

0557067 - FLÚ 2023 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Wirthová, Jitka - Barták, T.
Civil defence education. (Non)specific dangers and destabilisation of actorship in education.
Human Affairs. Roč. 32, č. 2 (2022), s. 180-198. ISSN 1210-3055
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : civil defence education * destabilisation * nationalism * populism * actor * danger
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Impact factor: 0.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2022-0014

This paper focuses on the push to stabilise society through civil defence education (CDE) in the changing context of nationalism and populism. We analysed the way in which justifications and criticism of civil defence education (CDE) have evolved as an ordering project intended to solve the problems with dangers that were variously defined. We identified two locations of the danger to be tackled by the new CDE - external and specific, and internal and general - which partly correspond to key political events: the migrant and Ukraine crises, and pre-election battles. Transformation of dangers stabilised education’s subservient role while destabilising educators’ position in the public debate. Drawing on relational sociology, qualitative analysis of the Czech media, and interviews, we show that the dangers defined by educational actors are circumvented to be replaced by populist and nationalist problems that were not the problems of the actors who would be most affected by the proposed curricular changes. We suggest looking at contemporary nationalists’ claims in education as a sign that topological arrangements are being reshaped among political, educational, and civic actors in terms of divides, externality, and irrelevance.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0332831