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Informationen zum Autor Sharlene Swartz is a sociologist and senior research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa! and a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge. She holds a masters degree from Harvard University and a PhD in the sociology of education from the University of Cambridge.Monica Taylor is a philosopher who has worked in a national educational research organisation in the UK and has edited the Journal of Moral Education for 35 years. She is currently a Research Associate at the Institute of Education! University of London and the President of the Asia Pacific Network for Moral Education. Zusammenfassung This book challenges prevailing and dominant Global North frameworks on moral education by showing how an African perspective may be employed to address seemingly intractable problems such as the legacies of ethnic conflict, genocide, Apartheid, poverty and HIV/AIDS. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Moral Education. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The pain and the promise of moral education in sub-Saharan Africa Sharlene Swartz 2. The African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho: implications for research on morality Thaddeus Metz and Joseph Gaie 3. The death of democracy and the resurrection of timocracy Mogobe B. Ramose 4. ‘Moral ecology’ and ‘moral capital’: tools towards a sociology of moral education from a South African ethnography Sharlene Swartz 5. Continuity and change in the development of moral education in Botswana Yonah H. Matemba 6. Moral education in a post-conflict context: the case of Burundi Herménégilde Rwantabagu 7. Post-conflict teacher development: facing the past in South Africa Gail Weldon 8. ‘Deceptive’ cultural practices that sabotage HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania and Kenya Mary Oluga , Susan Kiragu , Mussa Mohamed and Shelina Walli 9. Recent work in African ethics Thaddeus Metz 10. The moral tensions of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa Julia De Kadt , Tawanda Makusha and Linda Richter ...
