Institutional Culture and the Lived Experience of Violence on University Campuses in South Africa
This chapter attempts to move toward an understanding of the roots of racist exclusionary institutional cultures as a form of covert violence inflicted upon the ‘non-traditional’ students at (historically white) South African universities. I analyse the w
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University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship
Nuraan Davids • Yusef Waghid Editors
University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship
Editors Nuraan Davids Department of Education Policy Studies Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
Yusef Waghid Department of Education Policy Studies Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
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Foreword
As an emerging scholar who has delved into the trajectories of democratic peacebuilding and citizenship education and its pedagogies for the past eight years, I am privileged to offer a few comments on this excellent book. As an Egyptian-Canadian, I am also familiar with the politics and dynamics of the African continent, as well as that of relatively democratic western settler societies, in which democratic citizenship is still evolving in spite of its portrayal as a foundational backbone in their charters of human rights. While the notion of citizenship often implies conformity to the rule of law and a sense of patriotism and belonging, democratic citizenship questions the essence of the very laws that govern people in a particular setting. Hence, for citizenship to be democratic it has to be unsettling to enable people to examine their differences and learn to live together peacefully. University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship explores democratic citizenship at the u
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