Ubuntu pedagogy is an educational philosophy drawn from the southern African concept of ubuntu, often summarized as I am because we are, that treats a person's identity and moral development as inseparable from their community, and organizes classroom practice around collective responsibility, cooperative rather than individually competitive achievement, and a role for elders and the wider community in a child's education alongside the school's own. It has been advanced since South Africa's post-apartheid education reforms of the 1990s as an explicitly African alternative to individualist Western pedagogical assumptions, and informs education-policy discussion elsewhere in the region.
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Central QuestionHow can family, community, society, environment and spirituality serve as sources of knowledge and as teaching and learning media? 1 Most Effective ForGuiding and promoting African education and decolonising it from Western educational philosophies 1 Sources
1. Ubuntu philosophy, Wikipedia
Section: Ubuntu in education, first paragraph
Ubuntu education uses the family, community, society, environment and spirituality as sources of knowledge but also as teaching and learning media.
Section: Ubuntu in education, decolonisation paragraph
In education, Ubuntu has been used to guide and promote African education, and to decolonise it from Western educational philosophies.
In Group: Culturally Responsive and Multicultural Pedagogies, Lead
Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]; meaning 'humanity' in some Bantu languages, such as Zulu and Xhosa) describes a set of closely related Bantu African-origin value systems that emphasize the interconnectedness of individuals with their surrounding societal and physical worlds.
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