Heartbeat of Indigenous Africa
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African epistemology
Ag Ga
Authentic Human Life
Author_R. Sambuli Mosha
Bambara People
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chagga
Chagga Elders
Chagga People
Colonial Education
Colonial Educational System
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fundamental
Fundamental Human Virtue
Fundamental Virtues
Holistic Education
holistic indigenous education practices
Indigenous Africa
Indigenous African
Indigenous African Culture
Indigenous African Worldview
Indigenous Education
Indigenous Educational System
indigenous knowledge systems
Kilimanjaro International Airport
moment
moral education theory
people
Sh Ad
spiritual development research
teachable
Teachable Moments
traditional pedagogy
Transformation Rites
Unique Human Identity
Van Kaam
Vice Versa
virtues
worldview
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815334644
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Empowered by findings and insights from the wit and wisdom of the indigenous Chaga educational system, Dr. Mosha contends that an authentic educational program in Tanzania and elsewhere should be holistic in its unrelenting quest to educate the entire person: body, mind, and spirit. He provides a comprehensive description of the indigenous schooling process and its underlying fundamental virtues and then proposes that modern education should give equal emphasis to both the spiritual development of students as well as to their intellectual growth in knowledge, science, and technology. Dr. Mosha argues that for its own advantage and survival, education has to prioritize moral consciousness and responsibility in its students in order to attain academic excellence. Without a consistent moral living and moral action by all who teach and learn, education eventually plunges into hopeless mediocrity, It becomes the proverbial salt which loses its saltiness. This book provides several unique contributions to the academy. First, it illustrates how the Chaga people of N. Tanzania cherish everyday experience and every here-and-now situation as teachable moments, teaching moments, and learning moments. It is also uniquely rich in its description of stories, riddles, proverbs, and rituals as powerful tools of holistic education. Thirdly, the book breaks ground by comprehensively articulating specific indigenous virtues such as reverence, self-control, silence and thoughtfulness, courage, diligence in work, and communality. This book therefor makes a unique contribution in the areas of Indigenous Knowledge, Spirituality, Education, African American Studies, African Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, et cetera. The author's stories, personal experiences, and thick descriptions are so fundamental that every reader will rediscover, in this book, similar experiences in his/her own life.
