Nuraan Davids is associate professor of philosophy of education, and the chairperson of the Department of Education Policy Studies in the faculty of education at Stellenbosch University. Yusef Waghid is distinguished professor of philosophy of education in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Stellenbosch University.

• Foreword: The Just Demands of Democratic Inclusion: Ubuntu Communities and Democratic Education, by Ronald David GlassPrefaceChapter 1: Democratic inclusion/exclusion: On an imagined commensurabilityChapter 2: Democratic citizenship education and dissensus as inclusion Chapter 3: Race as a social (re)construction of exclusionChapter 4: Intersectionality, race and ethnicity Chapter 5: Gender and citizenship: conceptions and contestationsChapter 6: Equality as an imperative for democratic citizenship educationChapter 7: Under-representation as a pervasive impediment to democratic educationChapter 8: Why representation matters in teaching and learningChapter 9: Democratic citizenship education revisited: Re-opening debate about engagement and belongingChapter 10: Democratic citizenship education versus cosmopolitan education: an unwelcome contestation or not?BibliographyAbout the authors

While democracy is idealised around the world, equal access to the rights and sense of belonging associated with democratic citizenship remains out of reach for many people living in democratic societies today. In Democratic Education as Inclusion, Davids and Waghid consider who is included and excluded and how in democratic spaces. Drawing on a wide range of thinkers, they create a richly layered account of how identity, belonging, inclusion, and exclusion are interwoven in public spaces. In so doing, they elucidate the critical need to rethink cherished concepts like democracy and equality and troublesome ideas about race, ethnicity, and gender, reaffirming the vital task of examining education as a site for greater social justice.