TPF2601 Assignment 3 PORTFOLIO 50 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)– DUE August 2025; 100% correct solutions and explanations.

TPF2601 Assignment 3 PORTFOLIO 50 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)– DUE August 2025; 100% correct solutions and explanations.SECTION A: AN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION [10] Introduction The following definitions are important when doing observation to contribute to your theoretical knowledge of learning and teaching in South Africa. These definitions are constructed around the interpretation of specific aspects related to Africanisation. Make use of these definitions together with your theoretical knowledge of current research gained in each module. When observing, reporting and reflecting on the portfolio activities, these concepts and principles will enable you to reflect critically on learning and teaching in the unique context in which you are teaching. To improve education in South Africa, teachers need to be aware of the contextual factors that affect life and education. The lived realities as experienced by our society or communities provide a background to understand challenges from their unique contexts. An African philosophy of education based on these realities that articulate the lived reality is needed. This philosophy could become a useful tool that provides a perspective to define and address problems. This approach can improve education and life on different levels (Higgs, 2003). The reality experienced by a diverse African community suggests a spirit of communality as expressed in an indigenous African knowledge system. General unifying themes describe concepts in African philosophy that relate to education. To complete this portfolio, it is important that you understand these concepts. Read the information in the following table. The concept is explained first and the principles underlying or supporting the concept follow. To ensure that you understand the information, explain it in your own words in one sentence in the space provided. To complete this portfolio, it is important that you understand the concepts described below. General themes or concepts that are important for educators in South Africa TPF2601/Assessments 3/0/2025 ACTIVITY 1: DECOLONISATION (EDUCATION) (2) An active process to change the Western-dominated philosophy and approach to education into a balanced approach where indigenous knowledge and pedagogies are acknowledged and genuinely incorporated into the formal educational system. Multiple perspectives are included to make education relevant and practical to address needs and challenges within specific contexts. (Owuor, 2007) Principles: Mkabela – An African approach to education Own understanding of the concept: (1) Explain how an African philosophy influences your teaching context and provide examples. (1) ACTIVITY 2: AFRICAN COMMUNALISM (2) Community and belonging to a community are important aspects of African life. An individual is conceptualised in terms of her/his connectedness in a community. (Letseka, 2000) Principles: Individuals are interdependent. Human relationships are important. Content and knowledge must be useful for practice. Own understanding of the concept: (1) TPF2601/Assessments 3/0/2025 15 Explain how an African philosophy influences your teaching context and provide examples. (1) ACTIVITY 3: UBUNTU (HUMANNESS) (2) A philosophy that promotes the common good of society. It focuses on ethical standards that a person acquires throughout his/her life and therefore education plays a very important role in transferring the African philosophy of life. The values of caring, sharing and dignity are important. (Mosana) Principles: Understanding the uniqueness of all persons; recognising the humanity of others to affirm your own humanity; the welfare of others is important; fairness and humanness are crucial to personal well-being. In a fulfilled and flourishing life, people are reasonably well fed, well clothed and housed, in good health, loved, secure, and able to make a conscious effort to treat others with fairness and humanness. There are fairness and communality; individuals are interdependent. Human relationships are important. Therefore, respect, interpersonal skills and cooperative skills are important. Own understanding of the concept: (1) Explain how an African philosophy influences your teaching context and provide examples. (1) ACTIVITY 4: AFRICANISATION (2) Use an African point of departure to change or incorporate the African outlook and character in all aspects of an education grounded in a South African context. Principles: Our schools are situated in the South African context. Principles that guide African ways of thinking, which might be invaluable in making education more accessible to South African learners: Respect different ways of learning (Letsheka); use different processes and methods of assessment (Beets & Le Grange). Use examples from South Africa and other countries. Own understanding of the concept: Own understanding of the concept: (1) Explain how an African philosophy influences your