Cosmopolitan Education and Inclusion Human Engagement and the Self
This book expands understanding of cosmopolitan education that has the potentialto cultivate deliberative pedagogical encounters in universities. The authorsargue that cosmopolitan education in itself is an act of engaging with strangeness,otherness, diff
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Cosmopolitan Education and Inclusion
Yusef Waghid Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu Judith Terblanche • Faiq Waghid Zayd Waghid
Cosmopolitan Education and Inclusion Human Engagement and the Self
Yusef Waghid Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, South Africa Judith Terblanche Department of Accounting University of the Western Cape Bellville, South Africa Zayd Waghid Faculty of Education Cape Peninsula University of Technology Mowbray, South Africa
Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu School of Education University of Malawi Zomba, Malawi Faiq Waghid Centre for Innovative Learning Technology Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town, South Africa
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Foreword
It is generally accepted that public education was first created in Western societies to do two things: create workers for the newly emerging industrial economy that required at least minimal levels of literacy and numeracy; and forge a common citizenry out of the desperate peoples found in modern nation-states. In both cases homogeneity was regarded as very important; workers needed common skill sets and attitudes, and citizens needed to be weaned away from their socio-cultural particularities into compliance and loyalty to the nation-state. The forces of colonialism and neo-colonialism saw these approaches to education spread well beyond the so-called West. While there has been considerable critique of the industrial and homogenising nature of publi
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