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Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Exchange
Start: 01/09/2022, 15:00
End: 01/09/2022, 16:30
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Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Exchange

Date: Thursday, 1 September 2022

Time: 15:00-16:30 (SAST), 09:00-10:30 (EDT)

Ubuntu as a way of being – from policy to a value in education and social services

Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Exchange Fellows Dr Precious Simba and Dr Priscalia Khosa in conversation about their work to integrate Ubuntu as a relational, humanistic value in the way we think of systems that build education and social work practices.

Dr Priscalia Khosa is a lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She published widely on her fields of research interests, which include social work supervision, social work education, substance abuse and gender dynamics. She supervises master's students research on gender‑based violence, school social work and decolonisation of social work curriculums. In 2019, she was awarded a Social Work Emerging Educator of the Year Award by the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). She also received an Emerging Scholar Award for the Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (ISS) in 2021.

Dr Precious Simba is a lecturer in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Stellenbosch University. Her background is in after-school programmes, having founded a girls' education initiative in Bulawayo in 2011. Her doctoral research was a feminist critique of Ubuntu as a philosophy of education centred on education policy in Zimbabwe. Her research interests are ubuntu as a philosophy of education, education policy, feminist theory, intersectionality, and democratic citizenship education. She has an MA from the University of Sussex's Institute of Development Studies (IDS), where her studies focused on gender and development with a special interest in education. Dr Simba is a Mandela scholar (2013/14), a Sol Plaatje scholar (2018/2020) and an Ubuntu Dialogues Student Graduate Fellow (2020). 


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IiNgqunquthela Yokufakan' Imilomo NgoBuntu 

Umhla: NgoLwesine, 1 Septemba 2022 

Ixesha: 15:00-16:30 (SAST), 09:00-10:30 (EDT) 

Ubuntu njengendlela yokuphila – busukela ekubeni ngumgaqo-nkqubo nje baba ngumlinganiselo osetyenziswayo kwezemfundo nasekunikezelweni kweenkonzo zokuhlala 

AmaHlakani eNgqungquthela Yokufakan' Imilomo NgoBuntu uGqr Precious Simba noGqr Priscalia Khosa bathetha ngomsebenzi wabo wokuquka Ubuntu njengomlinganiselo wokunxulumana nodibanisa abantu xa sicinga ngeenkqubo ezingumqolo wezemfundo nentlalontle yoluntu. 

UGqr Priscalia Khosa ngumhlohli kwiSebe leNtlalontle kwiYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch, eMzantsi Afrika. Upapashe iincwadi eziliqela ngezinto athanda ukuphanda ngazo, eziquka ukubekwa esweni kwentlalontle, ukufundisa ngentlalontle, ukusetyenziswa kakubi kweziyobisi nemiba yesini. Uliliso kuphando lwabafundi bemastazi olungobundlobongela obusekelwe kwisini, umsebenzi wentlalontle ezikolweni nokuliwa kobukoloniyali kwiikharityhulam zentlalontle. Ngo-2019, uye wajizekwa ngeWonga loMhlohli woNyaka Ophum' Izandla kwezeNtlalontle yi-Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). Kanti wakwathiwa jize ngeWonga loMthandi-Wobulumko oPhum' Izandla kwiNkomfa Yehlabathi yeShumi Elinesithandathu kwiNzululwazi Yokuhlala Enamacandelo Awahlukeneyo (ISS) ngo-2021. 

UGqr Precious Simba ungumhlohli kwiSebe leZifundo zoMgaqo-nkqubo wezeMfundo kwiYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch. Uqale kwiinkqubo zasemva kwesikolo, eqalisa amaphulo okufundiswa kwamantombazana kwaBulawayo ngo-2011. Uphando lwakhe lobugqirha lwakukuhlab' amadlala kwamanina Ubuntu njengengcamango yezemfundo ejolise kumgaqo-nkqubo wezemfundo eZimbabwe. Izinto anomdla kuzo kuphando lwakhe bubuntu njengengcamango yezemfundo, umgaqo-nkqubo wezemfundo, ingcamango yezimvo zamanina, iinkalo ezahlukeneyo zobuntu, nezifundo ngokuphila kwidemokhrasi. Une-MA ayifumene kwiYunivesithi yaseSussex kwi-Institute of Development Studies (IDS), apho izifundo zakho bezijolise kwisini nophuhliso, apho owona mdla wakhe ukhethekileyo ubukwimfundo. UGqr Simba sisithandi sobulumko seMandela (2013/14), isithandi sobulumko seSol Plaatje (2018/2020) neHlakani le-Ubuntu Dialogues Student Graduate (2020).