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Masakhane, Ubuntu, and Ujamaa

Politics and Education in (Post) Socialist Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and South Africa

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This chapter focuses on the role of education in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and South Africa, paying particular attention to the part education played in creating a socialist worldview. It also draws attention to the importance of using indigenous understandings of socialism, utilizing concepts that come from African cultures and methodologies that build on African worldviews.

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    Iveta Silova

  2. Loyola University Chicago, USA

    Noah W. Sobe

  3. School for International Training Graduate Institute, World Learning, USA

    Alla Korzh

  4. University of Toronto, Canada

    Serhiy Kovalchuk

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Malisa, M. (2017). Masakhane, Ubuntu, and Ujamaa. In: Silova, I., Sobe, N.W., Korzh, A., Kovalchuk, S. (eds) Reimagining Utopias. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-011-0_17

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