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Kubow, Patricia K. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
My decade-long research on democracy and schooling in a Xhosa township has led to an examination of epistemological influences on democratic citizenship from Western and non-Western (i.e. African) perspectives. While Max Weber advanced the notion of an autonomous citizen within Western democratic states, different philosophical and cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Epistemology
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Kubow, Patricia K. – Comparative Education Review, 2007
In this article, the author aims to explore the roles of knowledge in constructions of democracy. First, she discusses theoretical ways to differentiate among some of the existing perspectives on democracy and citizenship within democratic states. She also examines Western conceptions of democracy and democratic citizenship, which draw…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Democracy, Citizenship