PiE 2012 Volume 30 Issue 4

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Editorial: rethinking citizenship and social justice in education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012) Keet, Andre; Carolissen, Ronelle
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The potential of critical feminist citizenship frameworks for citizenship and social justice in higher education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12) Bozalek, Vivienne; Carolissen, Ronelle
There is a paucity of South African literature that uses feminist critical approaches as a conceptual tool to examine intersections of social justice and citizenship. This article aims to address this gap by examining the potential of critical feminist approaches to transform conceptions of citizenship in higher education. It outlines how traditional normative frameworks of citizenship can be contested by drawing on feminist approaches. More specifically, the article focuses on feminist contributions regarding ontological constructions of human beings as citizens, the public-private binary, the politics of needs interpretation, participatory parity and belonging, illuminating these concepts with illustrative examples from the higher education context. The article concludes by suggesting recommendations based on the identified feminist conceptions.