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Letseka, Moeketsi – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2012
The article defends ubuntu against the assault by Enslin and Horsthemke ("Comp Educ" 40(4):545-558, 2004). It challenges claims that the Africanist/Afrocentrist project, in which the philosophy of ubuntu is central, faces numerous problems, involves substantial political, moral, epistemological and educational errors, and should…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caring, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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Jafthas, Joan A. A. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2008
In South Africa we had an education system that was content-based, inflexible, oppressive, and segregated in terms of disability and race. It was determined by time, calendar and by failing and passing at the end of the year. Learners had to "fit into" a particular kind of system or were integrated into an existing system. A shift is now…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Special Schools, Outcome Based Education, Inclusive Schools