Engaging curricula through critical citizenship education : a student learning perspective
Date
2015
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AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: In the previous chapters we have shown that numerous curriculum challenges remain
in higher education – not only in South Africa, but worldwide. One such challenge
is to provide a critical citizenship perspective to curricula that may contribute to
educate for more democratic and sustainable environments. We have also drawn
on Giroux’s views on critical pedagogy and engaged curricula as a potentially
useful lens to relate critical citizenship to critical pedagogy. Lastly, we have pointed
out that in South Africa, although important higher education policy initiatives had
materialised after 1994, much work remains to promote critical citizenship in higher
education curricula.
At least four elements of learning seem to inform critical citizenship education in
curricula, namely psychosocial, transformational, socio-political and multicultural
learning. One may also refer here to theories of learning, but what we do realise,
however, is that the forces interacting and wrestling for power in constructing curricula
that engage students on the one hand, but also keep such curricula vibrant on the
other hand, are numerous, complex and ever-shifting. This we want to allude to in
the sections that follow.
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CITATION: Costandius, E. & Bitzer, E. 2015. Engaging Curricula Through Critical Citizenship Education: A Student Learning Perspective, in E. Costandius & E. Bitzer. Engaging Higher Education Curricula: A critical citizenship education perspective. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 55-72. doi:10.18820/9781920689698/04.
The original publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch: South Africa.
The original publication is available from AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch: South Africa.
Keywords
Education, Higher -- South Africa, Multicultural education -- South Africa, Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- South Africa
Citation
Costandius, E. & Bitzer, E. 2015. Engaging Curricula Through Critical Citizenship Education: A Student Learning Perspective, in E. Costandius & E. Bitzer. Engaging Higher Education Curricula: A critical citizenship education perspective. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA. 55-72. doi:10.18820/9781920689698/04.