The Notion of Ubuntu and Communalism in African Educational Discourse

Studies in Philosophy and Education 23 (2/3):149-160 (2004)
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The notion of ubuntu and communalism is of great importance in anAfrican educational discourse, as well as inAfrican Philosophy of Education and in Africanphilosophical discourse. Ubuntu is aphilosophy that promotes the common good ofsociety and includes humanness as an essentialelement of human growth

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