A Call for More Literature and Deeper Data: A Response to "The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship"

Autor/in	Letseka, Moeketsi
Titel	A Call for More Literature and Deeper Data: A Response to "The Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship"
Quelle	In: Democracy & Education, 25 (2017) 1, Artikel 11 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1085-3545
Schlagwörter	Epistemology; Political Attitudes; Focus Groups; Interviews; Foreign Countries; Citizenship; Researchers; Elementary School Teachers; African Languages; Teacher Attitudes; Criticism; Journal Articles; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erkenntnistheorie; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland; Staatsbürgerschaft; Researcher; Forscher; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Lehrerverhalten; Kritik; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This review provides a critical appraisal of Kubow and Min's paper. It teases out their conception of "liberalism" and argues that the classical notion of liberalism as a political theory that advocates individual liberty based on assumptions of the unencumbered autonomous individual has lost currency. This is because over the years liberalism has mutated into a multiplicity of new forms, and there is no single view that can be said to define what it means to be a liberal. The paper raises methodological questions with respect to the use of focus group interviews. It implores researchers to first ask themselves whether they can tell what a person "really" believes on the basis of a few questions put to him in an interview. [For "Cultural Contours of Democracy: Indigenous Epistemologies Informing South African Citizenship," see EJ1120063.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01