Communitarian conflicts in Saudi Arabian civic education

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The purpose of the work at hand is to address philosophically and critically the issue of how Saudi citizenship education is currently incoherent because it seeks to foster civic loyalty to two distinct and competing doctrines while not recognizing or addressing the tension itself. The conflict in question is between loyalty to the Saudi nation, on the one hand, and the broader Islamic community, on the other. The question which this study attempts to answer is how Saudi Arabia's handling of teaching civic solidarity within national school curriculums poses an identity crisis. I address such complex question primarily through including various literatures in the field of Western political theory, particularly communitarian nationalism. In addition, I examine the 'nationalism' subject taught within Saudi educational settings so as to solidify my claim that there reside two competing forms of civic loyalty in Saudi educational settings. The hope is to shed light on the apparent identity crisis of Saudi citizens and conclude that remedying such incoherent form of belonging is partly possible through acknowledging and addressing the process of civic inculcation taught within educational settings.

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