Philosophy of education: Becoming less Western, more African?

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dc.contributor.authorEnslin, Penny
dc.contributor.authorHorsthemke, Kai
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-18T07:45:36Z
dc.date.available2016-07-18T07:45:36Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractPosing the question ‘How diverse is philosophy of education in the West?’ this paper responds to two recent defences of African philosophy of education which endorse its communitarianism and oppose individualism in Western philosophy of education. After outlining Thaddeus Metz’s argument that Western philosophy of education should become more African by being more communitarian, and Yusef Waghid’s defence of communitarianism in African philosophy of education, we develop a qualified defence of aspects of individualism in education. Our reservations about some aspects of communitarianism lead us to argue for a role for some forms of individualism in African as well as Western education. Finally, reflecting on what is at stake in this kind of comparative philosophy of education, we argue that an over-emphasis on cultural differences can distract philosophers of education from the attention they should pay to the common dangers posed across continents by the influence of global capitalism on education.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationEnslin, P., & Horsthemke, K. (2016). Philosophy of education: Becoming less Western, more African? Journal of Philosophy of Education, 50(2), 177-190. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12199en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1467-9752 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/20643
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican philosophy of educationen_ZA
dc.subjectWestern philosophy of educationen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunitarianismen_ZA
dc.subjectIndividualismen_ZA
dc.titlePhilosophy of education: Becoming less Western, more African?en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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