Community, Self and Identity: Educating South African University Students for Citizenship

Education in South Africa is in crisis, and this resource provides an opportunity to learn from a bold experiment in teaching and learning taking place across two very different universities, one historically black, the other historically white and Afrikaans. The book purports that as low literacy and numeracy rates, poor discipline, and a sense of despair pervade the education landscape, educators are called upon to achieve more, with universities tasked to produce graduates capable of exercising responsible and reflective citizenship in a competitive and globalizing world. With a mixture of rigorous scholarship, thoughtful self-reflection, and insights with relevance far beyond their own project, the contributors to this groundbreaking volume take readers systematically through an account of the potential and the limitations of imaginative innovations for transforming higher education in South Africa, inviting an ongoing discussion about the future.