Moral Education in sub-Saharan Africa

Sharlene Swartz is a sociologist and senior research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa, and a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge. She holds a masters degree from Harvard University and a PhD in the sociology of education from the University of Cambridge.Monica Taylor is a philosopher who has worked in a national educational research organisation in the UK and has edited the Journal of Moral Education for 35 years. She is currently a Research Associate at the Institute of Education, University of London and the President of the Asia Pacific Network for Moral Education.

• 1. Introduction: The pain and the promise of moral education in sub-Saharan Africa Sharlene Swartz 2. The African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho: implications for research on morality Thaddeus Metz and Joseph Gaie 3. The death of democracy and the resurrection of timocracy Mogobe B. Ramose 4. ‘Moral ecology’ and ‘moral capital’: tools towards a sociology of moral education from a South African ethnography Sharlene Swartz 5. Continuity and change in the development of moral education in Botswana Yonah H. Matemba 6. Moral education in a post-conflict context: the case of Burundi Herménégilde Rwantabagu 7. Post-conflict teacher development: facing the past in South Africa Gail Weldon 8. ‘Deceptive’ cultural practices that sabotage HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania and Kenya Mary Oluga, Susan Kiragu, Mussa Mohamed and Shelina Walli 9. Recent work in African ethics Thaddeus Metz 10. The moral tensions of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa Julia De Kadt, Tawanda Makusha and Linda Richter