Overview

This is a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary handbook, which places the social sciences and the humanities at the centre of intellectual and deliberative efforts about policy, law, public management, knowledge, health aesthetics and feminism. Presented in three volumes, the handbook is ahead of its time and sets out the terms for the post-colonial discourse on agency, freedom and justice. Its main objective is to spark a conversation among citizens on the challenges facing the country, such as poverty, inequality and unemployment. The contributors have a deep understanding of the social, economic and political aspects of post-colonial life in South Africa and the demands for fundamental change. This understanding is the source of their concern for and reflections on complex systems of agency, freedom and justice. The social sciences and the humanities stand to benefit immensely from these reflections, not as they are filtered through the lenses of theory and ideology in the abstract, but as we encounter them in lived experience.

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Author:   Muxe Nkondo ,  Reuel Khoza
Publisher:   University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Imprint:   University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Weight:   0.890kg
ISBN:  

9781869145637

ISBN 10:   1869145631
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   12 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Preface: Agency, Freedom and Justice Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Deliberative Framework PART 1: EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS Chapter 1. Integration of Thinking, Feeling and Doing in Education Theory and Practice in South Africa: A Framework for Cognitive, Affective and Social Epistemology Chapter 2. Knowledge and Education: Essential Tools for True Emancipation, Freedom and Development Chapter 3. The University as a Site of Contestation: Whose Knowledge Matters? Chapter 4. Linking the African Languages to the Continent’s Economic Development Chapter 5. Making the Fish Understand Its Water: Reflecting on Indigenous Knowledge of Our Time Chapter 6. Enabling Indigenous Knowledge Practices for the Re-imagining and Co-construction of a More Sustainable and Cohesive South Africa in the Face of Increased Poverty Chapter 7. Not the Time for Oblivion, Pride or Prejudice Chapter 8. African Food-Provisioning Knowledge Systems: Their Potential to Reverse the Scourge of Hunger in South Africa Chapter 9. War after the Revolution: Re-imagining South Africa’s Diverse Ways of Regeneration through a Tapestry of Knowledge Systems Chapter 10. Indigenous Knowledges in South Africa: Their Relevance in the Current Era and Contribution towards Sustainability Chapter 11. The Socio-Cultural Significance of Rituals in Indigenous Healing Systems Chapter 12. Indigenous Knowledge: Our Ancient Value-Added Systems Today Chapter 13. Code-Switching as an Effective Communicative Technique to Improve Mathematics Teaching and Learning Chapter 14. Corporal Punishment: Lessons from the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College PART 2: TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATION AND THE MEDIA Chapter 15. Leadership and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Chapter 16. Uneven Access to Digital Technologies: The New Oppressor of Disadvantaged and Marginalised Communities in South Africa Chapter 17. A Critical Review of the Media in South Africa Three Decades into Democracy PART 3: ETHICS, FAITH AND BELIEF IN A SECULAR STATE Chapter 18. Ethics, Faith and Belief in a Secular State Chapter 19. Doing Public Theology in the Age of Fallism: Some Theological Perspectives for a Democratic South Africa Chapter 20. The Ethics of Governance and Governance of Ethics: Transforming Business through the African Value System of Ubuntu PART 4: AESTHETICS: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE ARTS Chapter 21. The Power of the Creative Imagination in a World of Distances and Differences: An Arts Development Strategy Chapter 22. King Inna De Jungle: The South African Musical Prophecy Chapter 23. Confluences and Divergences: An Insider’s View of South Africa’s Cultural and Creative Industries Chapter 24. Open the Doors of Culture Now! Finding Creative Voice, Cultural Heritage and Future Vision in Post-Apartheid South Africa Chapter 25. Orchestral Manoeuvres and the Status of the Arm’s-Length Principle in Post-Apartheid South Africa Notes on Contributors

Reviews

‘The foreword, preface, acknowledgements and introduction constitute the first fifty pages of the handbook. It is clear that the editors were at pains to contextualise, explain and connect the chapters. But the handbook is not only striking for the huge number of authors and pages; its contribution is much deeper.’— Isolde de Villiers, Associate Professor, Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape

Author Information

Muxe Nkondo is a former Andrew Mellon Fellow in English at Harvard University. Recently the London School of Economics created a blog for him in philosophy.

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