"Whipping into Line": The Dual Crisis of Education and Citizenship in Postcolonial Zimbabwe

Autor/in	Matereke, Kudzai Pfuwai
Titel	"Whipping into Line": The Dual Crisis of Education and Citizenship in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44 (2012), S.84-99 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00799.x
Schlagwörter	Citizenship; Democracy; Citizenship Education; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Political Attitudes; Patriotism; History; Educational Strategies; Social Change; Zimbabwe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerschaft; Demokratie; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Patriotismus; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Lehrstrategie; Sozialer Wandel; Simbabwe
Abstract	This article draws from my current research on the challenges that the concept "citizenship" brings to postcolonial Africa. The article takes Zimbabwe as a case study with the view to interrogate how the decade-long crisis has been obfuscated by the elites' manipulation of the education system which has left it redundant for envisioning both postcolonial and world citizenship. First, this article seeks to outline the challenge of enunciating the crisis. Second, it outlines and discusses how the limits of postcolonial education reforms and the demand for a patriotic citizenry have stemmed from the political ideologues' deployment of "patriotic history" to mobilise citizens' allegiance to the party-state. Third, the article situates the citizenship education debate within the broader discourse of democratic citizenship and argues that the Zimbabwean crisis can be meaningfully addressed, among other measures, by taking citizenship education seriously and making schools and institutions of higher learning sites for democratic engagement. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10