Coda: Beyond Critical Citizenship Education
Date
2015
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AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Abstract
Undoubtedly, this volume offers a cogent and coherent account of citizenship
education commensurate with critical curriculum inquiry at universities. Using
social transformation in South Africa as a backdrop, Costandius and Bitzer posit
that university education ought to be framed according to theories and practices
of critical citizenship education that can hopefully engender more inclusive
pedagogical practices, in reference to teaching, learning, policy changes and
research. Their understanding of critical citizenship education, as aptly articulated in
the first chapter, is couched within the parameters of a transformative pedagogy that
accentuates the importance of critical reflection, imagination, human co-existence
in the face of diversity and the cultivation of social justice. Moreover, in Chapter 2,
by drawing on the seminal thoughts of an illustrious scholar of critical pedagogy,
Henry Giroux, they contend that the domination, exclusion and marginalisation
of students in and through university curricula should be counteracted, and that
appropriate epistemological, conceptual, structural, narratival and paradigmatic
changes should be enacted so that higher education discourses might be attenuated
more towards spaces of democratic action.
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CITATION: Waghid, Y. 2015. Coda: Beyond Critical Citizenship Education, in E. Costandius & E. Bitzer. Engaging Higher Education Curricula: A critical citizenship education perspective. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 123-129. doi:10.18820/9781920689698/07.
The original publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch: South Africa.
The original publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch: South Africa.
Keywords
Citizenship -- Study and teaching (Higher), Social change -- South Africa, Curriculum enrichment -- Education (Higher), Critical pedagogy, Giroux, Henry A.
Citation
Waghid, Y. 2015. Coda: Beyond Critical Citizenship Education, in E. Costandius & E. Bitzer. Engaging Higher Education Curricula: A critical citizenship education perspective. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 123-129. doi:10.18820/9781920689698/07.