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Ubuntu, Umuntu and Ubuntu: A Response to Matolino and Kwindingwi

Arụmarụka
The paper proffers a response to Bernard Matolino’s and Wenceslaus Kwindingwi’s rejection of UBUNTU. To do so, the paper does three things. First, it clarifies important concepts of Ubuntu ethics.
Motsamai MOLEFE, Elphus MUADE
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Ubuntu

Journal of Comparative Social Work
Ubuntu is an indigenous African philosophy that promotes collectivism, solidarity and mutual interdependence as being vital for the majority welfare. In this paper, it is used to discuss the findings from a qualitative study of how older people living with HIV (OPLHIV) in Korogwe, Tanzania use help groups for informal social support, to battle their ...
Vuyiswa Lamfiti, Joseph Koetsier
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Ubuntu

Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 2023
The In Dialogue piece in this issue, brings together Megan Seneque Aggie Kalungu-Banda, Martin Kalungu-Banda and Sharon Munyaka, to explore how different knowledge systems, including science, can be brought into conversation in an effort to democratize knowledge and support transformative societal change.
Megan Seneque, Martin Kalungu-Banda, Aggie Kalungu-Banda, Sharon Munyaka   +3 more
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Students' sense of belonging at a South African university during COVID-19

Perspectives in Education, 2023
The research on students’ sense of belonging in higher education has evolved into a prominent theme worldwide. Institutional research focuses on the institution understanding itself and helps leaders to rethink improvement initiatives.
Taabo Mugume
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Ubuntu pedagogy – transforming educational practices in South Africa through an African philosophy: from theory to practice

Inkanyiso, 2021
Education in South Africa, and Africa at large, has always been construed from Eurocentric perspectives despite Africa being rich with indigenous philosophies and knowledge systems such as the Ubuntu philosophy.
Nomlaungelo Ngubane, Manyane Makua
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A Report on Ubuntu by Leonhard Praeg

Acta Academica, 2014
From text: Leonhard Praeg’s book, A report on Ubuntu treats the question of “What is Ubuntu?” in a unique and illuminating fashion. The book begins with an approach that repositions Ubuntu by drawing a crucial distinction between what we mean when we ...
Motsamai Molefe
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Intersection of Ubuntu pedagogy and social justice: Transforming South African higher education

Transformation in Higher Education, 2021
Background: Universities, globally, and in South Africa, continue to be confronted with demands for transformation, humanisation of pedagogical practices and to embrace social justice.
Nomalungelo I. Ngubane, Manyane J. Makua
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Research Agendas in an Ubuntu Paradigm

SOTL in the South, 2023
The article contributes to the ongoing scholarly exploration of Ubuntu as an indigenous Southern African research paradigm. Building on an understanding of Ubuntu as humanness that embraces the interconnectedness not only of humans, but of all creation,
Maren Seehawer
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Ubuntu:

Perspectivas Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2022
La identidad internacional de Sudáfrica tras el advenimiento de la democracia multirracial en 1994 ha sido objeto de análisis de distintas corrientes teóricas. Sin embargo, el esfuerzo intelectual en este sentido ha permanecido mayoritariamente acotado a las perspectivas hegemónicas y occidentales de la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales ...
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Ubuntu feminism: Tentative reflections

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015
The starting-point for the article is to provide a brief background on the Ubuntu Project that Prof. Drucilla Cornell convened in 2003; most notably the interviews conducted in Khayamandi, the support of a sewing collective, and the continued search to ...
Drucilla Cornell, Karin van Marle
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