'Ubuntu' as an axiological framework for human rights education

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Title:	'Ubuntu' as an axiological framework for human rights education
Author:	Mkabela, Queeneth Nokulunga
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Volume:	13
Issue:	2
Pages:	283-291
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	indigenous peoples human rights citizenship education
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC166448
Abstract:	Increasing awareness has been drawn, in recent years, to the flaws of culturally irrelevant human rights education. Several factors, including a general lack of a culturally appropriate approach, a lack of integration of indigenous values, and the failure to provide human rights education that is responsive to community perspectives, have created a gap between the conceptualisation and practice of human rights by indigenous communities. So widespread is this feeling that parents are beginning to abdicate their roles of instilling values to their children and are blaming the system of education for introducing human rights education in schools which encourages unacceptable behaviour in communities. This article is concerned with a critical discussion and analysis of the key tenets of ubuntu and attempts to show how these can be utilised as an axiological framework for human rights education in South Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]