Development as pedagogy: engaging the Somali polity in the restoration of their civil society

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dc.contributor.advisorValk, John
dc.contributor.authorBlake, Lawrence David Frederick
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T16:41:15Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T16:41:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.updated2023-03-01T15:03:04Z
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this work is to reimagine the act of development in Somalia as a pedagogical process. I do this by identifying how neo-liberal and imperial systems have guided development policy in a manner that instrumentalizes Somali citizens, making them agents of thin neo-liberal development, all the while not allowing them to work towards their own human flourishing. Using the works of John Dewey and Paulo Freire, I characterize the path to a humanizing form of democracy in Somalia as being possible only through a mutual process of conscientization and praxis, taken up by both the agent of development as well as the recipient. In essence, the dialectic that is formed is one where the Somali associative community represents the antithesis to the democracy of the West, and it is only through a mutual act of co-construction and praxis that a liberatory synthesis can be fashioned.
dc.description.copyright© Lawrence David Frederick Blake, 2014
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dc.format.extentvi, 167 pages
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/14329
dc.language.isoen_CA
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.titleDevelopment as pedagogy: engaging the Somali polity in the restoration of their civil society
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
thesis.degree.fullnameMaster of Philosophy
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.Phil.

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