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Democratic Education as Inclusion explores how recognizing diversity allows us to engage with different perspectives and acknowledge other ways of being in the world. With greater diversity comes the opportunity to cross over into different life-worlds, and the greater the chance of ridding ourselves of our prejudices and misinformed fears.
List of contents
Foreword: The Just Demands of Democratic Inclusion: Ubuntu Communities and Democratic Education, by Ronald David Glass
Preface
Chapter 1: Democratic inclusion/exclusion: On an imagined commensurability
Chapter 2: Democratic citizenship education and dissensus as inclusion
Chapter 3: Race as a social (re)construction of exclusion
Chapter 4: Intersectionality, race and ethnicity
Chapter 5: Gender and citizenship: conceptions and contestations
Chapter 6: Equality as an imperative for democratic citizenship education
Chapter 7: Under-representation as a pervasive impediment to democratic education
Chapter 8: Why representation matters in teaching and learning
Chapter 9: Democratic citizenship education revisited: Re-opening debate about engagement and belonging
Chapter 10: Democratic citizenship education versus cosmopolitan education: an unwelcome contestation or not?
Bibliography
About the authors
About the author
Nuraan Davids is a Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her primary research interests include democratic citizenship education, Islamic philosophy of education, and philosophy of higher education. She is a co-editor of the Routledge series, World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education; co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies; associate editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education; editorial board member of Ethics and Education. Recent books (with Y Waghid) include: Democratic Education as Inclusion (Rowman & Littlefield - Lexington Series, 2022); Academic Activism in Higher Education: A living philosophy for social justice (Springer, 2021); Teaching, Friendship & Humanity (Springer, 2020); Teachers Matter: Educational philosophy and authentic learning (Rowman & Littlefield - Lexington Series, 2020).
Summary
Democratic Education as Inclusion explores how recognizing diversity allows us to engage with different perspectives and acknowledge other ways of being in the world. With greater diversity comes the opportunity to cross over into different life-worlds, and the greater the chance of ridding ourselves of our prejudices and misinformed fears.
