https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke Considering the principals of Afrocentric Worldview, would you agree or desiagree to the notion that is its imperative to include culture , into our curriculum, remember to what knowledge means to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A4gXKoVpg en-us 2022-06-20 10:15:28 UTC 2022-06-22 15:12:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9e0.png https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2225655116 I believe culture is important, but that it should be celebrated within your own culture and community. We are all Africans living in Africa and we should rather adopt a culture of collaboration where we understand each other's cultures but find common ground in Education and not focus on one group's culture per say. In a rainbow country where we have 11 different languages it will be next to impossible to incorporate everyone's culture in a schooling environment. Heritage day is a good idea for all schools to learn from each other's cultures. Lélane Lourens ]]> 2022-06-20 10:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2225655116 https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2225860758 Yes,Culture is beneficial because having a culturally diverse classroom fosters tolerance and gives students a sense of security when they are with people from other cultures. Additionally,it promotes intercultural sensitivity by teaching kids about many languages and cultures.]]> 2022-06-20 15:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2225860758 https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2226016164 Inclusion of culture in our schools/curriculum is an act that would signify that the African cultures are acknowledged and are worthy. In Africa we have embraced and worked around many other religions and cultures accept our own. That in essence means that we see and acknowledge other cultures and religions more than our own. For example, most South Africans know that Muslim owned shop are closed at certain times on Fridays. The university that I went to did not have any lectures at 1pm on Fridays to accommodate our Muslim mates who had to pray at the time. Muslim students are given an opportunity to break their fast during an exam during Ramadan. This is all done because our systems see Muslims as and for what they are. This in effect affects how Muslims feel about being Muslim. Makes their lives easier and I pretty sure happier which might have an impact on their quality of life.

I currently live in a Muslim dominated society and have noticed how their religion also influences their vocabulary. The use of the terms InshaAllah and MashAllah are constant reminders of whose turf I currently live on. I believe it is also a constant reminder to the children living in this society of who they are, what they believe in and that what they believe in is acceptable and appreciated, i.e they are seen for exactly who they are. This increases the number of times they acknowledge Allah and themselves, and decreases the risk of having their heritage erased.

Meanwhile I as an African child growing up in South African, knew nothing about my Zulu culture and practices. There was nothing in my school system that embraced it and in essence me. This I blame on our parents mistakenly forsaking our practices during apartheid as they deemed them partly responsible for the oppression as anything that was non-white was to be oppressed. It appears as if forsaking our practice was a way of gaining brownie points from the oppressor. 

This mentality was adapted by New Democratic government as well when they did not contextualize the curriculum at the dawn of democracy. The previous government had wanted their identity to be so ingrained in the curriculum that June 16 1976 happened. 

I currently teach an American curriculum, and just by the use of students names from the diverse American demographic, I have come to value the identity of each demographic group. The inclusion of the student in a wheelchair in the Math textbook has “normalized” students in wheelchairs to me. Growing up students in wheelchairs were somewhat “hidden” from society, as if they were a crime. And this is how not incorporating African cultures in the curriculum makes me think the government feels about our cultures. It’s an erasure of some sort.  

 

]]> 2022-06-20 19:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2226016164 BukelwaK https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2226069912 We cannot run away from the fact our heritage as a country is intimately linked to who we were in pre-colonial Africa. We had and still have ways of knowing way before the creation of books. We had oral tradition that did a stellar job teaching generations of people who passed that knowledge down to younger people so that they could do the same. It was a cycle of passing down knowledge and we had ways of "assessing" whether lessons were learnt through rites of passage that were mediated by elders who determined whether these tests were passed or failed. This is an education system in place and it was functional too because people lived on for years using the land to sustain themselves. Any curriculum that does not recognize this important fact is not one that is geared towards our development as citizens. The importance of this is that we don't linger in the past too much to such an extent that we end up being disconnected from the world. This information is supposed to propel us forward so that we make sense of the world and take care not to repeat mistakes that led to the dispossessed and consequent stunted growth of a majority of the population.

Our education system is supposed to retain our African roots but still make us relevant in the world beyond.]]> 2022-06-20 20:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2226069912 lvs0001 https://padlet.com/thandoir2/pwbzqvvj3h6ywjke/wish/2227067752 Lynette Grobler
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