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Choices in Liberal and Non‐liberal Political and Educational Thought
Author(s) -
Komba W.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00087
Subject(s) - liberal education , philosophy of education , politics , liberalism , sociology , social science , epistemology , liberal arts education , political science , positive economics , higher education , philosophy , law , economics
This article examines the concept of choice with reference to liberal and non‐liberal educational settings. It analyses the concept in Western liberal thought and in communitarianism, and discusses the challenges of implementing liberal democratic education in African societies (particularly former socialist countries like Tanzania) where the concept is becoming central in socio‐political and curricular reforms. It is argued that the residual collectivist political values rooted in traditional African holistic understanding of the world or the cosmos, that is, the affirmation of life , present a force against the kind of liberal and democratic civic education envisaged.