Democratic Education As Inclusion

Nuraan Davids; Yusef Waghid

doi:10.5771/9781793652379

Summary

Political and social expectations are often stymied and distorted by individual and communal identities—creating vastly incongruent and unrelated lived experiences, often within the same context. Democratic Education as Inclusion explores how the existence and enactments of diversity continue to present ubiquitous epicenters of misreading, misrecognition, and missed opportunities for peaceful co-existence—whether in established, or nascent democracies. Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid study how the public sphere has never held the same meaning to all individuals or groups. As such, there are deep implications for differentiated experiences of citizenship, between those who are included in the center of the sphere, and those who are excluded on the margins. This book explains the dyadic relationship between inclusion and exclusion and how it is not limited to the public sphere, or to broader conceptions of democratic citizenship. It is as apparent in educational settings, presenting under-explored complexities not only for teaching and learning, but for the life experiences of participants in teaching-learning. Often the foundational norms put into place during educational initiations become the primary determinants of how young people conceive of themselves as citizens, and how they conceive of themselves in relation to others.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5236-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5237-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 126
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. References No access
4. 1. Through a Poststructuralist Lens No access
  2. Structure of the Book No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Intractable Tensions of Inclusion/Exclusion No access
3. Democracy, Inclusion and Shared Common Interests No access
4. Democratic Inclusion and Becoming No access
5. On Iterations and Democratic Inclusion/Exclusion: An Imagined Commensurability? No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Citizenship: The Good(s) No access
3. Citizenship: The Bad and the Ugly No access
4. Stretching the Notion of Democratic Citizenship Education in Response to Its Predicaments No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Race As (Mis)constructed No access
3. ‘Whiteness’ as Symbol of Racial Identity No access
4. Whiteness as Orientated towards Exclusion No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Intersectionality: A Tangled, But Necessary Web No access
3. Conflations and Controversies No access
4. Undoing Intersectional Polemic of Race and Ethnicity No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Women as Gender No access
3. Gendered Citizenship No access
4. Women, Citizenship and Invisibility No access
5. Disrupting Discursively Disparate Forms of Citizenship for Women No access
1. Introduction No access
2. On Presupposing Equality No access
3. On Equality, Recognition and Democratic Citizenship Education No access
4. Implications for Teaching and Learning No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Representation as Presence No access
3. Representation as an Act of Education No access
4. Reclaiming Representation No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Teacher (Under)representation in Schools No access
3. The Case of South Africa No access
4. Towards Representation as Presence and Inclusion No access
5. Implications of Inclusion for Teaching and Learning No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Inclusion/Exclusion No access
3. Inclusion as Belonging No access
4. Towards a Renewed Understanding of Learning and Its Ramifications for Democratic Citizenship Education No access
5. Framing a Reconfigured Notion of Democratic Citizenship Education No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Towards a Cosmopolitan Community No access
References No access Pages 107 - 116
Index No access Pages 117 - 124
About the Authors No access Pages 125 - 126