Hi all
Welcome, Barbara - I attended the ALARPM World Congress on the Groenkloof
campus of the University of Pretoria in 2003. It was partly facilitated by
Pieter du Toit who was on the organizing Committee. There was a paper
presented there, as I recall, by a woman who used African story-telling in
her pedagogical practice. There may well have been folk who were using song
as well - a good number of African educators were present. You may be able
to track down the Proceedings using
http://www.education.up.ac.za/alarpm/welcome.html but probably Pieter is
still there. Also there is the most amazing Professor of Education, Jonathan
Jansen, who is worth making contact with regardless of the song bit! An
awe-inspiring, humourous, totally committed guy who told me when we were
chatting at one point, that changing a university's culture was like moving
a graveyard - plenty of old bones and you don't get any help from the
inhabitants! Good luck with your search.
Warm regards
Pip Bruce Ferguson
(New Zealand)
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Subject: Re: Joining and Leaving the 2006-7 e-seminar
Welcome to Barbara Nussbaum who joins the e-seminar today. Barbara works in
the
CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, and asks:
".. is there anybody in your network who is working in the area of African
Pegagogy,
and facilitation, using song as facilitation, affirmation and team building
in the
classroom. I have been asked to work with some of our tutors to put together
a
module on "African-centered Facilitation". I will probably draw a lot from
my previous
research on the role of music and dance in African culture, but would
welcome any
resources, ideas, papers that may have been written."
Barbara - having read some of your writings on Ubuntu I am hoping that you
will
share your understandings as our e-seminar evolves. Sharing our
understandings
of Ubuntu could inform our thinking about the living standards of practice
and
judgement that could help to lead the world into sustaining humanity.
Marian Naidoo's doctoral thesis is focused on a relational and inclusional
way of
expressing passion for compassion in 'I am because we are' at:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/naidoo.shtml
and Yaakub Murray's welcome to his website at:
http://royagcol.ac.uk/%7Epaul%5Fmurray/
includes :
By visiting, I hope to share with you some of my passion and spirit in
Ubuntu -
"Umuntu ngumuntu nagabantu" ~ 'A person is a person because of other people'
Love Jack.
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