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Most of our contemporary national societies are highly complex, diverse and dynamic, facing intense social problems, like unemployment, terror, poverty, crime, immigration, violence, gaps, controversies exclusions etc. Our states’ polity and agencies, especially of the more neoliberal ones, become overburdened (Horowitz & Lisak, 1989), and have great difficulties in their attempts to face those challenges. When it comes to democracies it’s up to their citizens to decide whom they prefer to serve them in their need for those attempts to succeed.
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Ressissi, N. (2012). Social Literacy Curriculum. In: Alt, D., Reingold, R. (eds) Changes in Teachers’ Moral Role. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 6. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-837-7_6
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