Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)
Vol 8, No 2: May 2014

Deciphering Traditional African Education in R.S. Peters’ Education as Initiation

Amasa P. Ndofirepi (University of the Witwatersrand)



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Publish Date
01 May 2014

Abstract

In this theoretical paper, I examine education in traditional African societies in the context of R.S. Peters’ (1966) conception of “Education as Initiation”. Philosophers of education have developed a concern and insight into the notion of education primarily by addressing the question of conceptual analysis:  what do we mean by education and add a justificatory question: how do we know that education is valuable? Traditional conceptions of education have viewed education as the process of initiation of new entrants into the practices of a given social group. This paper focuses special interest on the extent to which traditional African view of education is defensible within the R.S. Peter’s conception of education. I draw some philosophical insights by interrogating some perspectives on indoctrination and initiation in the understanding of the notion of the aim of education.

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EduLearn

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Humanities Education Library & Information Science Social Sciences Other

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Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) ISSN: 2089-9823, e-ISSN 2302-9277 is a multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of education, teaching, development, instruction, ...