African Democratic Citizenship Education Revisited

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Waghid, Yusef (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Davids, Nuraan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
• Subjects: International education .; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Higher education.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Educational sociology.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Higher Education.; Sociology of Education.

This edited collection explores how democratic citizenship education manifests across the African continent. A recognition of rights and responsibilities coupled with an emphasis on deliberative engagement among citizens, while not uniquely African, provides ample evidence that the concept can most...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. On the Relevance of a Theory of Democratic Citizenship Education for Africa; Yusef Waghid
• Chapter 2. Democracy, Citizenship and Religion in Egypt: On the Necessity of Disrupting a post-Arab Spring; Nuraan Davids
• Chapter 3. Rethinking Democratic Citizenship Education in Africa: Towards Moderate Deliberation (Malawi and Namibia); Joseph Jinja Divala & Rachel Shanyanana
• Chapter 4. Afrophobia in the South African Higher Education System: A Threat to Internationalisation and Global Citizenship Initiatives; Joseph Pardon Hungwe & Joseph Jinja Divala
• Chapter 5. Nationalism and/or the Annihilation of Democratic Citizenship Education: A Critical Analysis of Zimbabwe's Citizenship Education Initiatives; Agrippa Chingombe & Joseph Jinja Divala
• Chapter 6. On the (Im)Possibility of Democratic Citizenship Education in Kenya: Spheres of Change; Jane Chiroma
• Chapter 7. (Re)Examining the Role of Technology in Education through a Deliberative Decision-Making Approach: In the Quest towards Democratic Education in South African Schools; Zayd Waghid & Faiq Waghid
• Chapter 8. The Politics of Schooling: Imagining Critical Democratic Citizenship Education in the Age of Neoliberalism (SA); Tracey Isaacs
• Chapter 9. Democratic Citizenship Education in Nigeria; Ruth Ayoola & Nuraan Davids
• Chapter 10. Democratic Citizenship Education Revisited in Zimbabwean Higher Education; Monica Zembere
• Chapter 11. Coda: Democratic Citizenship Education and Openness: On an Education of 'Bare Life'; Nuraan Davids & Yusef Waghid.