Education for Responsible Citizenship: Conversation

Autor/in	Waghid, Yusef
Titel	Education for Responsible Citizenship: Conversation
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 27 (2009) 1, S.85-90 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Citizenship; Altruism; Racial Segregation; Citizenship Education; Foreign Countries; Essays; Higher Education; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerschaft; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Rassentrennung; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Ausland; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	There is an abundance of literature on citizenship education. This essay is an attempt to show how deliberation is used in university classroom pedagogy, to engender in students a commitment to becoming responsible citizens of a post-apartheid South Africa. Firstly, I show that controversy can be attended to through deliberation, with specific reference to three incidents in my country: alleged racist practices at a university ; an instruction by the Minister of Education to introduce a pledge of allegiance in public schools; and xenophobic attacks on foreigners. Secondly, I show that deliberation alone cannot guarantee responsible citizenship. Students also need to be taught to have compassion for the vulnerable other. Finally, I argue that cultivating citizenship through deliberation offers much hope to counteract blindly patriotic sentiments and to engender cosmopolitan justice. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10