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dc.contributor.authorMasitera, Erasmus
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-19T14:02:09Z
dc.date.available2022-10-19T14:02:09Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationMasitera, E. 2020. ‘Towards a humane community : the search for disability justice in higher education through African moral thinking’. Transformation in Higher Education 5:1-10. [https:// doi.org/10.4102/the.v5i0.85]en_US
dc.identifier.issn2415-0991
dc.identifier.issn2519-5638 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/39961
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4102/the.v5i0.85
dc.description.abstractBackground: The central claim of this article is that African disability justice is possible through analysing, re-examining and reimagining realities that distort and disempower the being of individuals with disabilities. Aim: In this article, I argue for an African disability justice. Methods: I do this by establishing that higher education ought to produce citizens who are responsive and are able to reinvent Africa through the idea of (community) serving. I borrow these ideas from the African ethical thinking and practice of relational attitude and communal living. Setting: In traditional African thinking, as informed by Ubuntu [I am, because you are] social thinking, disability was recognised and respected. Results: I, therefore, develop the concept of reflective-creative education (RCE) as carrying this African ethos for social justice (responsive and enabling citizens) towards members with disabilities. In that endeavour, African higher educational institutes ought to prepare and empower Africans to be responsive and to enable others to live confidently and inclusively in transformed communities that address the needs of citizens. Conclusion: In this way education becomes a tool (RCE) for changing attitudes and developing citizens to be proactive in building better communities to live in.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSISen_US
dc.subjectDisability justiceen_US
dc.subjectAfrican ethical thinkingen_US
dc.subjectUbuntuen_US
dc.subjectHigher Educationen_US
dc.subjectReflectivecreative educationen_US
dc.subjectCommunal livingen_US
dc.subjectRelational thinkingrelational thinkingen_US
dc.titleTowards a humane community : the search for disability justice in higher education through African moral thinkingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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