Full Description
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.
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
