Can ubuntu provide a model for citizenship education in African democracies?

Comparative Education

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 545-558

  Enslin, Penny ^a   Horsthemke, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DEMOCRACY; EDUCATION;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8644224861     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305006042000284538     Document Type: Article

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