On the (Im)Possibility of Building a Culture of Humanity and Responsibility in Schools

Abstract

In this chapter we draw on the conceptions of potentiality and becoming as avenues through which to (re)build a culture of humanity and responsibility, not only in schools, but all that constitutes it. Our reason for offering a pathway along which humanity and responsibility can be cultivated in schools is prompted by the Department of Basic Education’s (DoBE) insufficient attempts to teach democratic citizenship in South African schools in more than a decade since policy was promulgated in 2001 in the form of the Manifesto on Values, Education and Democracy.