On Africa Day, QAWO was invited to speak to 500 school principal's at the South African Principal's Association (SAPA)'s Annual conference. The talk provided an opportunity for Makhosi to share just a piece of the vision and mission for helping to transform global society into a place where we can rebalance the benefits of technology and modernity with the ancient wisdom still contained in indigenous cultures that is ALL of our heritage, but largely ignored or trivialised by western society.
In part 1, the focus is on introducing language as a way to bring people together to address the core issues in society today - separation and mistrust between people, especially across cultures!
In part 2, the focus is on the notion that we need balanced transformation in society, that western cultures have as much to learn from indigenous cultures as we expect them to learn from us!
In part 3 & 4, the focus is on the notion of a calling to service in society, and how ideally education should help connect children with their calling. Also talking about edutainment as a strategy to compete with media and and other distractions for the attention of scholars and adults.
In part 5, the focus is on cultural immersions in townships and villages as a global strategy for creating balanced cultural respect, multilingualism, distribution of wealth, de-urbanisation and stimulating micro-enterprises in areas of poverty.
In part 6, the focus is on global context and relevance of multilingualism and multicultural respect, as well as how a new world requires a new way of educating!
Thanks for having me, SAPA!!!!
See the script and slides here: http://ubuntu-bridge.blogspot.com/2013/06/quite-white-ou-sapa-speech-script-and.html
The official blog of UBuntu Bridge and http://www.learnxhosa.co.za, where you will find information pertaining to Xhosa language courses, Xhosa learning manuals and Xhosa Audio Cds, as well as Xhosa immersion opportunities and general cultural points of interest.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
'Open-source Ideas Blog' idea
I had another thought about an 'open-source ideas blog', a place where people can post ideas, that they are happy for other people to take on and act on, because they too busy or whatever! But for anyone who is seeking inspiration they go to the blog, and they just need to post their proposal on how they think they can manifest the vision. Others could then see and join, comment, make shizz happen. Original idea dude can then sit back and be like, oh yeah, that was my idea, haha!
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