In practice, abstract citizenship is mere fantasy and wishful thinking.
One thing, however, is certain: The practice of citizenship cannot be imposed from above.
"It's like a door through which they can start to practice their citizenship values", she says.
The authors argue that ancient Athenian democracy was an ingenious solution to organizing human capital through the practice of citizenship.
Students who get to practice responsible citizenship in their schools may turn out to be those most likely to exercise it later.
The true orator is one whose practice of citizenship embodies a civic ideal - whose rhetoric, far from empty, is the deliberate, rational, careful organiser of ideas and argument that propels the state forward safely and wisely.
It is from this tradition of resistance to unrepresentative rule that Europe draws its own democratic culture, its notion and practice of citizenship, public space and political activism, and the role and responsibilities of the state.
The beginning is to develop something entirely missing from both Israeli and Palestinian realities today: the idea and practice of citizenship, not of ethnic or racial community, as the main vehicle for coexistence.
By analyzing these foundational documents, such as Libro de la Banda, Order and Chivalry reveals how the poetics of order operated within the medieval Iberian world and beyond to transform the idea of the city and the practice of citizenship.
