‘Ubuntu Leadership’: Learning from the South About Becoming a Citizen of the World

  • Bazalgette J
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This chapter about the African concept of Ubuntu, offers a way of addressing school leadership which reorients children's experience in schools, equipping them to do 'the right thing' in the adult world which calls for new paradigms of leadership and learning. It offers examples of the paradigms used in today's organisations which prioritise competition and lack moral compass. These factors caused: the financial collapse 2008; cost-cutting procedures which caused dozens of deaths; inept public service management which condoned major child abuse. It describes Ubuntu culture, attending to accountability for the well-being of others, contrasts with those cultures. It describes historic elitist assumptions about ownership and being owned which underpin European schooling are demonstrably dangerous. It analyses school cultures that embed Ubuntu leadership from classroom to whole school. It underlines the shift which places learning to belong centrally and upon which all other learning is built. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

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Bazalgette, J. (2016). ‘Ubuntu Leadership’: Learning from the South About Becoming a Citizen of the World. In Reimagining the Purpose of Schools and Educational Organisations (pp. 263–278). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24699-4_20

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