Moral education in sub-Saharan Africa: culture, economics, conflict and AIDS
OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2011
TITLE EDITOR(S): S.Swartz, M.Taylor
KEYWORDS: EDUCATION, MORALITY, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6867
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3751
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3751
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2011
TITLE EDITOR(S): S.Swartz, M.Taylor
KEYWORDS: EDUCATION, MORALITY, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6867
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3751
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3751
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Abstract
The term "moral" has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contrast to moral education as a vehicle of cultural imperialism and social control, this volume shows moral education to be concerned with both private and public morality, with communal and national relationships between human beings, as well as between people and their environment. Drawing on distinctive perspectives from philosophy, economics, sociology and education, it offers the African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho as a plausible alternative to Western approaches to morality and shows how African ethics speaks to political and economic life, including ethnic conflict and HIV/AIDS, and may be an antidote to the current practice of timocracy that values money over people. The volume provides sociological tools for understanding the lived morality of those marginalised by poverty, and analyses the effects of culture, religion and modern secularisation on moral education. With contributions from fourteen African scholars, this book challenges dominant frameworks, and begins conversations for mutual benefit across the North-South divide. It has global implications, not just, but especially, where moral education is undertaken in pluralist contexts and in the presence of economic disparity.-
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