PiE 2012 Volume 30 Issue 4
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Lesbian, gay and bisexual citizenship: a case study as represented in a sample of South African Life Orientation textbooks
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)Over the past two decades, sexual citizenship has emerged as a new form of citizenship coupled with increased interest in the challenges to citizenship and social justice faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ... -
Teaching social justice: reframing some common pedagogical assumptions
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)Drawing on scholarship in Critical Pedagogy, this article speaks to the debate about pedagogical approaches within social justice education (SJE). The article addresses itself to privileged positionality within the context ... -
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)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 ... -
Understanding and action: thinking with Arendt about democratic education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)Taking as its point of departure Ahier’s location of the problem of citizenship in the context of the changes that globalisation and neo-liberalism have brought about in higher education, this article focuses on the conceptual ... -
A humanising pedagogy: getting beneath the rhetoric
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)In this article, the authors situate and make an argument for a humanising pedagogy in response to the legacy of a dehumanising past in South Africa. They describe the inquiry into a humanising pedagogy by means of mining ... -
Pedagogical justice and student engagement in South African schooling: working with the cultural capital of disadvantaged students
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)This article is a conceptual consideration of what could be regarded as pedagogical justice for disadvantaged students in South African schools. Combining Bourdieu’s social reproduction account of education with elements ... -
Re-imagining democratic citizenship education: towards a culture of compassionate responsibility
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)Benhabib (2002:134) maintains that, in order for individuals to become democratic citizens they need to be exposed to at least three inter-related elements: collective identity, privileges of membership, and social rights ... -
Editorial: rethinking citizenship and social justice in education
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Critical emancipatory research for social justice and democratic citizenship
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)This article proposes a research paradigm located within the respectful relationship between participants and researcher(s) towards construction of positive holding, interactions and invitational environments which ... -
The curriculum and citizenship education in the context of inequality: seeking a praxis of hope
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)In South Africa, more than most countries, the meaning of citizenship and related rights has faced severe contestation centred on categories such as race, class and nation. Close to two decades after the first democratic ... -
The spatial practices of school administrative clerks: making space for contributive justice
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2012-12)This article discusses the work practices of the much neglected phenomenon of the work of school administrative clerks in schools. Popular accounts of school administrative clerks portray them as subjectified – assigned ...
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