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. She 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 to attain academic excellence. Without a consistent moral living and moral action by all who teach and learn, education eventually plunges into hopeless mediocrity. This book provides several 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 rich in its description of stories, riddles, proverbs and rituals as powerful tool 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 therefore makes a significant contribution in the areas of indigenous knowledge, spirituality, education, African American studies, African studies, religious studies and anthropology.
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I am a student of the author - His class, "African Spirituality and Education," has taught me some very valuable lessons about African teachings and spirituality! This book has opened my eyes to the wonder of teaching our children at early stages in their lives - definitely wished I had this kind of book when I was raising my two now-grown sons. I believe that in order for our children to learn, we must develop and create "villages" to surround them with love and knowledge, as well as teach them about their own spiritual lives. I believe that every parent should have this type of book to give them the encouragement to learn how to teach and nurture their babies from birth, so that they can learn to be productive adults. I highly recommend this book to parents and teachers!
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Many years of personal experience, study, research and teaching on indigenous African culture in general and on indigenous Chagga culture in particular, have disclosed that, like all peoples everywhere, indigenous Africans have a fundamental worldview, a unified trend of thought on life and world, which inspires their thoughts, words, and actions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ipvunda process, fundamental human virtues, transformation rites, indigenous parents, indigenous doctors, humanization process, indigenous rites, indigenous elders, indigenous education, formative reading, fundamental virtues, indigenous worldview, formative spirituality, holistic education, interdependent whole, indigenous knowledge, moral formation, fundamental human values, human formation, fundamental story Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, South Africa, African Religions, Adrian van Kaam, Oxford University Press, African Philosophy, Anthony de Mello, Burkina Faso, Facing Mount Kenya, Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Brigham Young University, Chaga Childhood, Formation of the Human Heart, Formative Spirituality, Image Books, Michael Lerner, Shaaban Robert, The Politics of Meaning, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Parliament of the World's Religions, Roger Straughan New!
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Many years of personal experience, study, research and teaching on indigenous African culture in general and on indigenous Chagga culture in particular, have disclosed that, like all peoples everywhere, indigenous Africans have a fundamental worldview, a unified trend of thought on life and world, which inspires their thoughts, words, and actions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ipvunda process, fundamental human virtues, transformation rites, indigenous parents, indigenous doctors, humanization process, indigenous rites, indigenous elders, indigenous education, formative reading, fundamental virtues, indigenous worldview, formative spirituality, holistic education, interdependent whole, indigenous knowledge, moral formation, fundamental human values, human formation, fundamental story Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, South Africa, African Religions, Adrian van Kaam, Oxford University Press, African Philosophy, Anthony de Mello, Burkina Faso, Facing Mount Kenya, Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Brigham Young University, Chaga Childhood, Formation of the Human Heart, Formative Spirituality, Image Books, Michael Lerner, Shaaban Robert, The Politics of Meaning, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Parliament of the World's Religions, Roger Straughan New!
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