dc.contributor.author | Masitera, Erasmus | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-19T14:02:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-19T14:02:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Masitera, 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.issn | 2415-0991 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2519-5638 (Online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/39961 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.4102/the.v5i0.85 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: 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.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | AOSIS | en_US |
dc.subject | Disability justice | en_US |
dc.subject | African ethical thinking | en_US |
dc.subject | Ubuntu | en_US |
dc.subject | Higher Education | en_US |
dc.subject | Reflectivecreative education | en_US |
dc.subject | Communal living | en_US |
dc.subject | Relational thinkingrelational thinking | en_US |
dc.title | Towards a humane community : the search for disability justice in higher education through African moral thinking | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |