Environment (education) as a community project : deliberative democracy in action
dc.contributor.author | Reddy, C. | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Le Grange, L. | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Waghid, Y. | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-23T14:08:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-23T14:08:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.description | CITATION: Reddy, C., Le Grange, L. & Waghid, Y. 2004. Environment (education) as a community project : deliberative democracy in action. South African Journal of Higher Education, 18(1). | |
dc.description.abstract | One way of enacting environment (education) as community in relation to higher education, is for a university, selected schools and the Cape Metropolitan Council (local government organisation) to engage critically in deliberative discourse with the aim of cultivating a sense of citizenship amongst participants. This article reports on a Schools Water Project (SWAP) implemented by a university in partnership with a local government organisation, specifically showing that environment (education) as a community project can engender willing and cooperative participation, rational discussion and debate, relations of trust and a sense of democratic citizenship within and among participants, particularly at schools 3 and 4 of the case studies. Moreover, the research findings suggest that willing participation through critical engagement and rational argumentation would not necessarily be outcomes of contrived deliberation as has happened at schools 1 and 2. Unlike at schools 3 and 4, learners lack the ability to work independently and to engage critically in SWAP activities, which make the achievement of defensible deliberative practices highly unlikely. | |
dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
dc.format.extent | 16 pages | |
dc.identifier.citation | Reddy, C., Le Grange, L. & Waghid, Y. 2004. Environment (education) as a community project : deliberative democracy in action. South African Journal of Higher Education, 18(1). | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1753-5913 (online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/78206 | |
dc.rights.holder | Authors retain copyright | |
dc.subject.other | Environmental education | en_ZA |
dc.title | Environment (education) as a community project : deliberative democracy in action | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article |
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