Comparative Education for Global Citizenship, Peace and Shared Living Through Ubuntu

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51879-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55/19, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices / The World Council of Comparative Education Societies

There is a dire need today to create spaces in which people can make meaning of their existence in the world, abiding by cultural frameworks and practices that acknowledge and validate a meaningful existence for all. People are not just isolated individuals but are connected in diverse ways with other persons within our natural and social environment which is part of the whole universe. The African philosophy of uBuntu or humaneness is re-emerging for its timely relevance and potential as indispensable in our quest for global citizenship, peace, and mutual understanding in securing sustainable human development in the broader ecosystem.

Comparative educationists have the challenge to devise theoretical frameworks, epistemological and pedagogical constructs as well as pragmatic, useful and effective ways of promoting the virtues of compassion and recognition of our common humanity in eliminating the ills of domination and control that are guided by greed, hatred, jealousy, and intolerance.

Comparative Education for Global Citizenship, Peace and Shared Living through Ubuntu paves the way for a better understanding of the critical importance of the collective search and endeavor towards achieving the virtues of nonviolence, peace, shared values of living together, global citizenship, improved quality of life for all and a better appreciation of the positive implications of interdependence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Assié-Lumumba, N’Dri Thérèse

Cross, Michael

Bedi, Kanishka

Ekanayake, Sakunthala

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Tshilidzi Marwala

Preface and Acknowledgements

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

Dedication

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Michael Cross, Kanishka Bedi and Sakunthala Ekanayake

2 Educating for Global Citizenship, Peace and Harmony through uBuntu

Moeketsi Letseka

3 Global Citizenship Education and the (Post)Human Condition

Lesley Le Grange

4 ‘Jumping on the Band Wagon’: Is Global Citizenship an Illusion?

Steve Azaiki and Gertrude Shotte

5 African Philosophy of Higher Education and uBuntu

Yusef Waghid

6 Beyond Classroom Pedagogies: Embracing Student-Driven Activities in Students’ Social and Intellectual Development in South African Higher Education

Elizabeth Ndofirepi and Michael Cross

7 “Creative Resistance”: Establishing a World-Minded Indian University in Colonial British India

Mousumi Mukherjee

8 The Education of the Girl Child in Algeria and the Condition of the Woman between Tradition and Change: Alienation or Emancipation?

Aïcha Maherzi

9 UBuntu Philosophy and the Gender Crisis within South Africa’s Higher Education Sector

Phefumula Nyoni and Olaide Agbaje

10 Teaching National Languages as an Instrument of Inclusion and Unity in Angola

Teresa Almeida Patatas and António Teodoro

11 Imparting Academic Work Ethic in Undergraduate Students through
Religiosity

Dennis Zami Atibuni

12 Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the United Kingdom: Lessons for South Africa

Sibonokuhle Ndlovu

13 Educational Response to COVID-19 Pandemic with an uBuntu Lens: The Kenyan Experience (December 2019 to June 2020)

Daniel Komo Gakunga

14 Peace and Harmony through uBuntu in a Globalized World

Joel Mukwedeya

15 Conclusion

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Michael Cross, Kanishka Bedi and Sakunthala Ekanayake

Index

Über Autor(innen)

N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Ph.D. (1982), University of Chicago, is a Professor at Cornell University in the Africana Studies and Research Center; Director of the Cornell Institute of African Development (IAD); Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg; and President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES).

Michael Cross, Ph.D. (1994), University of the Witwatersrand, was the Founding Director of the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg and served as an education specialist in several national education policy initiatives in South Africa.

Kanishka Bedi, Ph.D. (2007), University of Lucknow, is President of Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society and Executive Director of World Council of Comparative Education Societies. Professor Bedi held leadership positions at several international institutions during 25 years of his career.

Sakunthala Ekanayake, Ph.D. (2011), University of Bristol, is Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She is Vice President of the Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society.