Browsing Decolonisation by Subject "Ubuntu (Philosophy)"

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The African philosophical concept of Ubuntu as applied to the Emotional Intelligence of adolescents : challenging the appropriateness of Western-derived concepts

Mankowitz, Debra J. (2018-11)

The study assessed the Emotional Intelligence/Ubuntu understanding in sixteen learners aged 11-14 from both the Low SES and High SES levels, which includes the peri- urban/disadvantaged/informal settlements and the ...
The African Philosophy of "Ubuntu" and correctional education in South Africa: a case study

Johnson, L. R. Quan-Baffour, K. P. (African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), 2016-02)

The South African history and circumstances have resulted in many families in South Africa living on the edge of survival. Many young people who break the law have no basic education for employment and many have no source ...
Botho/Ubuntu : perspectives of black consciousness and black theology

Dolamo, Ramathate Tseka Hosea (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014-08)

Botho/ubuntu is a philosophy that is as old as humanity itself. In Africa and South Africa it was a philosophy and a way of life for many indigenous tribal groups. It is an African cultural belief that called on individuals ...
A critical analysis of the contribution of selected Shona proverbs to Applied Philosophy

Gwaravanda, Ephraim Taurai (2016-01)

The research focuses on the epistemic tension between Western positivist epistemology and African indigenous knowledge systems particularly Shona proverbs. The research argues that Western epistemological hegemony is both ...
Development of a short course to inculcate the spirit of Ubuntu amongst student nurses at Limpopo College of Nursing, Limpopo province

Manganyi, Thokozile (2017-11)

The purpose of the study was to develop a short course to inculcate the spirit of Ubuntu amongst the student nurses at Limpopo College of Nursing at Limpopo Province. A sequential explanatory research design was used and ...
The harmonisation of good faith and ubuntu in the South African common law of contract

Du Plessis, Hanri Magdalena (2017-11)

The legal historical development of fairness in the South African common law of contract is investigated in the context of the political, social and economic developments of the last four centuries. It emerges that the ...
Power sharing and the challenge of ubuntu ethics

Louw, Dirk J. (Dirk Jakobus) (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2010)
Revisiting virtue ethics and spirituality of Botho: a study of an indigenous ethic of character formation in the moral thought and practice of Basotho

Mokolatsie, Chris N. (2019-11)

The current Afro-communitarianism (AC) articulation and analysis of botho is characterised by two main approaches. First it treats botho as if it is a universal concept that can be expounded independently in a theoretical ...

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