Brief Description of my project: Explore school segregation in post-apartheid Johannesburg by visiting historical sites, museums, and learning about the history student-led movements and South African leaders in Johannesburg and Cape Town. My goal is to create a course directed by the principles found in the work of Gloria Ladson-Billings regarding culturally responsive pedagogy, and working towards what Carmen del Salazar describes as a "humanizing pedagogy."
The history of apartheid is the history of dehumanization, the history of othering, and exclusion.
The history of apartheid is the history of dehumanization, the history of othering, and exclusion.
Understanding Ubuntu
The word 'ubuntu' features in the Nguni group of languages and means essentially 'being human'. It symbolises the fact that all people are interdependent on one another. Each person has an important role to play in his/her society to ensure peace and prosperity for all. Source
Ubuntu, from the Nguni language, is one of those well-loved, elemental words that defy simple translation. The closest English equivalent is "humaneness," or "the quality of being human." A proverb common across Africa expresses the ubuntu ideal: "A person is a person through other people." Source
Ubuntu, from the Nguni language, is one of those well-loved, elemental words that defy simple translation. The closest English equivalent is "humaneness," or "the quality of being human." A proverb common across Africa expresses the ubuntu ideal: "A person is a person through other people." Source
Humanizing Pedagogy
Humanization is the process of becoming more fully human as social, historical, thinking, communicating, transformative, creative persons who participate in and with the world (Freire,1972, 1984). To become more fully human, men and women must become conscious of their presence in the world as a way to individually and collectively re-envisage their social world (Dale & Hyslop-Margison, 2010; Freire & Betto, 1985; Schapiro,
2001). Humanization is the ontological vocation of human beings and, as such, is the practice of freedom in which the oppressed are liberated through consciousness of their subjugated positions and a desire for self-determination (Freire, 1970, 1994). Humanization cannot be imposed on or imparted to the oppressed; but rather, it can only occur by engaging the oppressed in their liberation. As such, Freire (1970) proposes that the process of humanization fosters transformation and authentic liberation of the oppressed; thus, "to transform the world is to humanize it" (Freire, 1985, p. 70).
del Carmen Salazar, M. (2013). A Humanizing Pedagogy: Reinventing the Principles and
Practice of Education as a Journey Toward Liberation. Review of Research in
Education,37, 121-148.
2001). Humanization is the ontological vocation of human beings and, as such, is the practice of freedom in which the oppressed are liberated through consciousness of their subjugated positions and a desire for self-determination (Freire, 1970, 1994). Humanization cannot be imposed on or imparted to the oppressed; but rather, it can only occur by engaging the oppressed in their liberation. As such, Freire (1970) proposes that the process of humanization fosters transformation and authentic liberation of the oppressed; thus, "to transform the world is to humanize it" (Freire, 1985, p. 70).
del Carmen Salazar, M. (2013). A Humanizing Pedagogy: Reinventing the Principles and
Practice of Education as a Journey Toward Liberation. Review of Research in
Education,37, 121-148.
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