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There is an old parable about a passer-by seeing a man on his hands and knees searching the ground on a corner under a streetlight. ‘What are you looking for?’ the passer-by asks. Hunched over on his hands and knees, the man replies ‘I’ve lost my car keys.’ The kind passer-by immediately joins him in his search. After a few minutes searching without success, she asks the man whether he is sure he lost the keys there on the street corner.
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Westheimer, J. (2011). Practicing Democracy. In: Veugelers, W. (eds) Education and Humanism. Moral Development and Citizenship Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-577-2_7
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