Democratic Education as Inclusion

Individual and communal identities can create misreading, misrecognition, and missed opportunities for peaceful co-existence, particularly in educational settings. Democratic Education as Inclusion explores the dyadic relationship between inclusion and exclusion and its implications for differentiated experiences of citizenship.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 154 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Political and social expectations are frequently hindered and twisted by individual and collective identities, resulting in vastly disparate and unrelated lived experiences, often within the same context. Democratic Education as Inclusion delves into how the existence and implementations of diversity persist as ubiquitous sources of misinterpretation, misrecognition, and missed opportunities for peaceful coexistence, whether in established or nascent democracies. Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid examine how the public sphere has never held the same meaning for all individuals or groups. Consequently, there are profound implications for differentiated experiences of citizenship, between those who are included in the center of the sphere and those who are excluded on the margins. This book elucidates the dyadic relationship between inclusion and exclusion and how it extends beyond the public sphere and broader conceptions of democratic citizenship. It is evident in educational settings, presenting under-explored complexities not only for teaching and learning but also for the life experiences of participants in teaching-learning. Often, the foundational norms established during educational initiations become the primary determinants of how young people perceive themselves as citizens and how they perceive themselves in relation to others.

Weight: 254g
Dimension: 231 x 154 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793652386