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Critical thinking, community elders and Africa’s development

Journal of Social Development in Africa

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Title Critical thinking, community elders and Africa’s development
 
Creator Ukhun, CE
 
Subject critical thinking, elders, community, Africa, traditional, development
 
Description The paper recognizes the need for holistic development that has eluded the continent of Africa in the contemporary world. The quest for Africa’s development is predicated on the desire for the good life. In departing from other clichés and traditional modes of analysis of the challenge of Africa’s development, we highlight an unarticulated factor of development – ‘critical- cum- creative thinking’, which has been vitiated by elders (male-elders) in African communities. In this paper, we suggest that in light of the importance of ‘critical thinking’ as a desideratum of meaningful or holistic development, elders in Africa need to adopt an attitude which allows for a free reign of critical and creative disposition, which other community members, such as the youths, women, and children, are endowed with, as a catalyst for development of the continentKEYWORDS: critical thinking, elders, community, Africa, traditional, development
 
Publisher School of Social Work, University of Zimbabwe
 
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Date 2010-05-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsda/article/view/54267
10.4314/jsda.v24i1.54267
 
Source Journal of Social Development in Africa; Vol 24, No 1 (2009)
1012-1080
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/jsda/article/view/54267/42788
 
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