Re-visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity

While acknowledging the contribution of the book in articulating the notion of Ubuntu as an essential concept to envisage the future of education in Africa, we strongly believe that emphasis should also be given to the fundamental difference between Ubuntu humanism and Western humanism. For Santos,...

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Published inGlobal Comparative Education : Journal of the WCCES Vol. 4; no. 1/2; pp. 121 - 124
Main Authors Woldegiorgis, Tadesse, Cross, Michael
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca World Council of Comparative Education Societes (WCCES) 01.09.2020
Subjects
Cultural heritage
Decolonization
Education policy
Education reform
Educational Policy
Educational Practices
Gender equity
Humanism
Inclusive education
International Education
Modernity
Neocolonialism
Pan-Africanism
Philosophy
Postcolonialism
Poststructuralism
State-society relations
Africa
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Summary:While acknowledging the contribution of the book in articulating the notion of Ubuntu as an essential concept to envisage the future of education in Africa, we strongly believe that emphasis should also be given to the fundamental difference between Ubuntu humanism and Western humanism. For Santos, a fundamental problem with Western discourses of morality, social justice, and human rights is in reducing people they are supposed to serve to objects and not subjects of such discourses. [...]even though precoloniality is certainly a necessary point of departure, we argue that attention should also be paid to Ubuntu in its current expression and complexity; that it is through a critical analysis of the impact of Ubuntu on African lives under colonialism and neocolonialism that we can better understand and reclaim the true potential and power of African humanism. The major challenge, however, is interrogating the exact way in which Ubuntu could inspire and transform education in Africa. [...]we maintain, associating Ubuntu with traditionality in contrast to the present realities of modernity or post-modernity is problematic given their colonial determinations. [...]we urge the scholarly community to be critical of considering and framing the future of Ubuntu projects within the disempowering dichotomy of 'tradition' and 'modernity'.
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ISSN:2522-7491