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Download full textHungwe, Joseph Pardon; Ndofirepi, Amasa. P. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This conceptual article examines the "ukama" ethic concerning the COVID-19 pandemic-induced 'new normal' in African higher education. In so doing, we endeavor to appropriate "ukama" which is a communally oriented value system to militate against socially isolated individualism in Remote Learning and an Ethic of Care that…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, African Culture, Educational Change
Direct linkSheppard, Maia G. – History Teacher, 2010
This paper reports findings from a study that explored the classroom culture that developed in a university history classroom when the professor's pedagogical decisions encouraged students to make personal connections with difficult issues, events, and ideas in history and their own lives. The author describes how this experienced teacher…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Classroom Environment, Caring, African Culture
Venter, Elza – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2004
The notion of "ubuntu" and "communalism" is of great importance in an African educational discourse, as well as in African Philosophy of Education and in African philosophical discourse. "Ubuntu" is a philosophy that promotes the common good of society and includes humanness as an essential element of human growth. In…
Descriptors: Caring, World Views, African Culture, Ethics
