Answer to Question #208481 in Sociology for Nombuso

Question

what aspects of African-based education can be integrated with the teaching philosophy

Answer 1

African-based education has several aspects such content knowledge, classroom management, professional behavior, teacher beliefs, and quality of instruction. It has focused on the training and skill development of the individuals in various local communities. It enabled every member of each community ta be gainfully employed. It had its foundation in the five principles of preparationism, functionalism, communalism, perennialism and holisticism. This aspects can be integrated with the teaching philosophy. Integrating aspects of professional behavior, content knowledge, quality of instruction, functionalism, communalism will help in offers a discourse to address the continent's many problems which include famine, hunger, poverty, abuse, violence and exclusion of the other. The Ubuntu philosophy articulates such important values as respect, human dignity, compassion, solidarity and consensus, which demands conformity and loyalty to the group which equips learners to embrace unity and loyalty.