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Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Oliver Mutanga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000995941
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Oliver Mutanga and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa. Disability literature is largely dominated by scholars and studies from the Global North, and these studies are largely informed by Global North theories and concepts. Although disability literature in the Global South is now fast growing, most studies continue to utilise conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical frameworks that are framed within Global North contexts. This presents two major challenges: Firstly, the voices of people with disabilities in the Global South remain on the fringes of disability discourses. Secondly, when their voices are heard, their realities are distorted. This edited book, consisting of 11 chapters, provides case studies from Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Uganda, and South Africa, explores disability in various fields: Inclusive education, higher education, environment, Open Distance Learning, and Technical and Vocational Education and Technical Colleges. The book contributes to the ways in which disability is understood and experienced in the Global South thereby challenging the Western hegemonic discourses on disability. This collection of contributions will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, development studies, medical sociology, and African studies.

Re-Visioning Education in Africa

Author : Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331970043X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Re-Visioning Education in Africa written by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges faced by governments from the local and national level and beyond. Along the way, the editors and their contributors examine important policy questions to encourage fresh thinking on ways to improve the educational system and, in turn, to buoy the development of the region as a whole.

Southern Theories

Author : Oliver Mutanga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003826717
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Southern Theories written by Oliver Mutanga and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically explores Global South perspectives, examining marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature. The unique value of this book lies in its extensive coverage of various Southern challenges, including disaster management, climate change, communication, resilience, gender, education, and disability. It also underscores the relevance of indigenous philosophies such as animism, Buen Vivir, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Neozapatism, Qi vitality, Taoism, and Ubuntu. Stemming from regions as diverse as Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, these philosophies are brought into public discourse. By demonstrating their practicality in designing intervention programs and influencing policy-making, the book fills a critical gap in global Southern literature while promoting context-specific knowledge for improving well-being in the Global South contexts. This book’s content resonates with a diverse audience, encompassing students, academics, researchers, NGOs, and policymakers from postcolonial states in the Global South and those from Global North countries. Furthermore, it is highly relevant to communities within the Global North that mirror the Global South – those grappling with equity issues for indigenous populations. It has a versatile appeal that transcends disciplinary boundaries, encompassing cultural studies, sociology, international development, philosophy, and postcolonial studies, thus making it accessible to all educational levels. It holds particular interest for those in development studies, indigenous studies, government departments globally, international organisations, and universities worldwide.

Towards an Ubuntu University

Author : Yusef Waghid
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031064542
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Towards an Ubuntu University written by Yusef Waghid and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the argument to reconsider the idea of a university in light of the African ethic of ubuntu; literally, human dignity and interdependence. The book discusses, through the context of higher education discourse of philosophy and comparative education, how global universities have evolved into higher educational institutions concerned with knowledge (re)production for various end purposes that range from individual autonomy, to public accountability, to serving the interests of the economy and markets. The question can legitimately be asked: Is an ubuntu university different from an entrepreneurial university, thinking university, and ecological university? While these different understandings of a university accentuate both the epistemological and moral imperatives in relation to itself and the societies in which they manifest, it is through the ubuntu university that emotivism in the forms of dignity and humaneness will enhance a university’s capacity for autonomy, responsibility, and criticality. This book would be of academic interest to university educators and students in philosophy of education, comparative education, and cultural studies.

Inclusive Education in African Contexts

Author : Nareadi Phasha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463008039
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Inclusive Education in African Contexts written by Nareadi Phasha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we articulate the possibilities, limitations and challenges of inclusive schooling and education in African contexts? This book insists that inclusive education cannot be taken for granted. Inclusion is neither a natural nor a given educational practice. It must be struggled for. Bringing a critical perspective to inclusive schooling and education is imperative. This book adds to current educational debates with an African lens. It engages inclusive education from multiple lenses of curriculum content, classroom pedagogy and instruction, representation, culture, environment and the socio-organization life of schools, the pursuit of equity and social justice and the search for educational relevance. It is opined that Africa cannot be left behind in rethinking educational inclusion in ways that evoke critical questions of power, equity and social difference. The question of leaner’s identity in terms of class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, language, ethnicity and race are equally consequential for African schooling and education. When inclusion is understood as wholeness of education, then how schooling and education engage the complete learner – her/his body, mind, soul and spirit, as well as the use of local community and Indigenous knowledges in teaching and learning become relevant. Inclusion stands the risk of liberal educational agendas that simply tinker or toy with schooling and education and hardly embrace the challenge of educational change. What we need is a fundamental structural change that ensures schooling and education embraces difference while grappling with the teaching of Indigeneity, decolonization and resistance.

Ubuntu

Author : Lovemore Mbigi
Publisher : Knowres Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781869221331
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Ubuntu written by Lovemore Mbigi and published by Knowres Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 6 2018

Author :
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 6 2018 written by and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the publication The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is also a source for country-based reports as well as commentaries on recent developments in the field of disability rights in the African region. Table of Contents EDITORIAL Editorial SECTION A: ARTICLES Rather bad than mad? A reconsideration of criminal incapacity and psychosocial disability in South African law in light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Heléne Combrinck Legal capacity of parties with intellectual, psycho-social and communication disabilities in traditional courts in Kwazulu-Natal Willene Holness & Sarah Rule Protection of the rights of persons with mental disabilities to liberty and informed consent to treatment: A critique of Gordon Maddox Mwewa & Others v Attorney General & Another Felicity Kayumba Kalunga & Chipo Mushota Nkhata Rearticulating ubuntu as a viable framework for the realisation of legal capacity in sub-Saharan Africa Louis O. Oyaro Implementing article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in South Africa: Reasonable accommodations for persons with communication disabilities Robyn White & Dianah Msipa Leaving the woods to see the trees: Locating and refocusing the activities of non-state actors towards the effective promotion of access to justice of persons with disability Azubike Onuora-Oguno SECTION B: COUNTRY REPORTS République de Bénin Marianne Séverin Union des Comores Youssouf Ali Mdahoma Mauritania Kedibone Chembe & Babatunde Fagbayibo Rwanda Olwethu Sipuka The Gambia Satang Nabaneh SECTION C: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS A step to zero attacks: Reflections on the rights of persons with albinism through the lens of X v United Republic of Tanzania Benyam Dawit Mezmur Progress towards inclusive primary education in selected West African countries Ngozi Chuma Umeh BOOK REVIEW Peter Blanck & Eiliónoir Flynn (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Disability Law and Human Rights (2017) Heléne Combrinck

Disability in Africa

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 158046971X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Disability in Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

Social, Educational, and Cultural Perspectives of Disabilities in the Global South

Author : Ndlovu, Sibonokuhle
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 179984868X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Social, Educational, and Cultural Perspectives of Disabilities in the Global South written by Ndlovu, Sibonokuhle and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and research for disabilities and disability support are largely produced by the Global North even though it is utilized globally, including in the Global South. For this reason, the encouragement of greater research efforts and technological creation are essential for advanced disability support in the Global South. Social, Educational, and Cultural Perspectives of Disabilities in the Global South is an essential scholarly publication that examines scholarship and academics with disabilities, with an emphasis on the disruption of stereotypes as well as lived experience. Featuring a wide range of topics such as feminist theory, student motivation, and artificial intelligence, this book is ideal for academicians, academic professionals, researchers, policymakers, and students.

African Philosophy and Thought Systems

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956763012
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book African Philosophy and Thought Systems written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once acrimonious debate on the existence of African philosophy has come of age, yet the need to cultivate a culture of belonging is more demanding now than ever before in many African societies. The gargantuan indelible energised chicanery waves of neo-colonialism and globalisation and their sweeping effect on Africa demand more concerted action and solutions than cul-de-sac discourses and magical realism. It is in view of this realisation that this book was born. This is a vital text for understanding contextual historical trends in the development of African philosophic ideas on the continent and how Africans could possibly navigate the turbulent catadromous waters, tangled webs and chasms of destruction, and chagrin of struggles that have engrossed Africa since the dawn of slavery and colonial projects on the continent. The book aims to generate more insights and influence national, continental, and global debates in the field of philosophy. It is accessible and handy to a wider range of readers, ranging from educators and students of African philosophy, anthropology, African studies, cultural studies, and all those concerned with the further development of African philosophy and thought systems on the African continent.

African Philosophy Through Ubuntu

Author : Mogobe B. Ramose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Philosophy Through Ubuntu written by Mogobe B. Ramose and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of decolonisation, the philosophical character of European standpoint on colonisation together with its corresponding practices remains unchanged in its relations with the erstwhile colonies. It is precisely this condition which calls for the need for the authentic liberation of Africa. This speaks of a two-fold exigency. One is that the colonised people's conceptions of reality, knowledge and truth should be released from slavery and dominance under the European epistemological paradigm. Without this essential first step there cannot evolve a common authentic and liberating universe of discourse. The second exigency is that the evolving common universe of discourse must take into account the rational demands of justice to the colonised arising from the unjust wars of conquest that resulted in colonial disseizing of territory as well as the enslavement of the colonised. These rational demands of justice are specifically the restoration of territory to its indigenous rightful owners and reparations to them. This two fold exigency is the indisplensable neccessity for the authentic liberation of Africa, and indeed, all the colonised people of the world.

African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 7 2019

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Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 7 2019 written by and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 7 2019 2019 ISSN: 2311-8970 Pages: 279 Print version: Available Electronic version: Free PDF available About the publication The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is also a source for country-based reports as well as commentaries on recent developments in the field of disability rights in the African region. Table of Contents EDITORIAL SECTION A: ARTICLES The implications of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the legal capacity of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in Ethiopia Merga Yadesa Dibaba Human rights and access to health care for persons with albinism in Africa Ebenezer Durojaye and Satang Nabaneh Conflicting discourses on conceptualising children with disabilities in Africa Shimelis Tsegaye Tesemma and Susanna Abigaêl Coetzee Right to self-representation for people with mental disabilities in Kenya’s courts Paul Juma The place of sign language in the inclusive education of deaf learners in Zimbabwe amid CRPD (mis)interpretation Martin Musengi Left in the periphery: An appraisal of voting rights for persons with disabilities in Zimbabwe Nkosana Maphosa, CG Moyo and B Moyo SECTION B: COUNTRY REPORTS Tchad Serge Marcellin Tengho Mali Marianne Séverin Burundi Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga Republic of Congo Marianne Séverin and Chretien Fontcha South Sudan Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi, Theophilus M Odaudu and Reshoketswe Mapokgole SECTION C: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS Leveraging the international human rights system to advance local change for South African women with disabilities Anastasia Holoboff & Suzannah Phillips The right to an adequate standard of living in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Africa Yvette Basson BOOK REVIEW Simon Foley: Intellectual disability and the right to a sexual life (2019) Charles Ngwena

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism

Author : Maria Berghs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351165062
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism written by Maria Berghs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be. This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies. It also challenges the activist movements, transnational and emancipatory politics, as well as providing future directions for disability activism. With contributions from senior and emerging disability activists, academics, students and practitioners from around the globe, this handbook covers the following broad themes: • Contextualising disability activism in global activism • Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North • Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism • Belonging, identity and values: how to create diverse coalitions for rights • Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces • Social media, support and activism • Campus activism in higher education • Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices • Enabling human rights and policy • Challenges facing disability activism The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism provides disability activists, students, academics, practitioners, development partners and policy makers with an authoritative framework for disability activism.

Disability and Social Change

Author : Brian Watermeyer
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796921376
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Disability and Social Change written by Brian Watermeyer and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful volume represents the broadest engagement with disability issues in South Africa yet. Themes include theoretical approaches to, and representations of, disability; governmental and civil society responses to disability issues; aspects of education as these pertain to the oppression/liberation of disabled people; social security for disabled people; the complex politics permeating service provision relationships; and a consideration of disability in relation to human spaces - physical, economic and philosophical. Firmly located within the social model of disability, this collection resonates powerfully with contemporary thinking and research in the disability field and sets a new benchmark for cutting-edge debates in a transforming South Africa.

Rurality, Social Justice and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Volume I

Author : Alfred Masinire
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030572773
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Rurality, Social Justice and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Volume I written by Alfred Masinire and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores rurality and education in sub-Saharan Africa through a lens of social justice. The first in a two-volume project, this book explores the possibilities and constraints of rural social justice in diverse educational contexts: how should rurality be defined? How does education shape and reshape what it means to be rural? Drawing chapters from a diverse range of contributors in sub-Saharan Africa, the two volumes are underpinned by a robust social justice approach to rural schooling and its intersections with access, gender, colonialism, social mobility and dis/ability. Ultimately, these volumes reflect the need to shift conceptions of rurality from colonial and conservative stereotypes to an appreciation of rurality as locations in space and time, with their own unique attributes and opportunities. Harnessing indigenous African concepts of justice to open up conversations into teaching and knowledge production in higher education, this book will be of interest to scholars of rurality and education, as well as wider discussions on decolonising the academy.

Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State

Author : Hisayo Katsui
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040002404
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State written by Hisayo Katsui and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment. Exploring these experiences of persons with disabilities and discussing universality and particularity in our understanding of assumed development and normalcy, it takes Finland, which has been chosen repeatedly as the happiest country in the world as its case- study. Using disability as a critical lens helps to demystify Finland that has the positive reputation of a Welfare State. By identifying different kinds of discrimination against persons with disabilities as well as successful examples of disability inclusion, it shows that when looking Finland from the perspective of persons with disabilities, inequality and poverty have been collective experiences of too many of them. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, political science, health and well-being studies and Nordic studies more broadly.

Environmental Justice in African Philosophy

Author : Munamato Chemhuru
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000567753
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Justice in African Philosophy written by Munamato Chemhuru and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book makes suggestions for how to derive environmental justice from African philosophies such as communitarian ethics, relational ethics, unhu/ubuntu ethics, ecofeminist ethics and intergenerational ethics. Specifically, the book emphasises the ways in which African philosophies of existence seek to involve everyone in environmental policy and planning and to equitably distribute both environmental benefits (such as natural resources) and environmental burdens (such as pollution and the location of mining, industrial or dumping sites). This extends to fair distribution between global South and global North, rich and poor, urban and rural populations, men and women and adults and children. These principles of humaneness, relationships, equality, interconnectedness and teleologically oriented existence among all beings are important not only to African environmental justice but also to the environmental justice movement globally. The book will interest researchers and students working in the fields of environmental ethics, African philosophy and political philosophy in general.