Immanent umthakathi: critically self-reflexive dung beetle doing: contextually appropriate education for be(com)ing better with_in the world now.
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2021
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‘Yearning to be bold’, carefully crossing borders of transformative, pragmatic and indigenous
paradigm spaces in search of decolonised radical democratic living and learning liberation, this PhD
addresses the question:
How is critical education for social justice a contextually appropriate response to teacher
development for a more just and equitable world?
As indicated in the title, through the ‘miracle of metaphor’ this study ‘faces and embraces’ the
paradox of domesticating for submission as a PhD, a thesis seeking means to productively balance
the love and rage of struggling to do being in better balance within the radical presence of forever
becoming living learning of liberation. The entangled whole is presented for intersubjective sensemaking
through bricolage, genealogically weaving together critically self-reflexive ethnography of
the Parts, defying fracture of dominant definitions. At least, that is the hopeful possibility pursued as
a contributory stream.
The reflexive journey produced the applied grounding methodology of the whole offering: Dung
Beetle Doing, a regenerative cycle working with Seed Pearl conceptual praxis tools.
Originally imagined as a ‘PhD by publication’ three Parts shape the whole. Form is maintained
through a structural Beanstalk presenting the cultural production of the ‘Bean’ articles it houses.
The titles and taglines of the articles hint at their intersecting contribution:
Growing Social Justice Educators: a pedagogical framework for social justice education
Not the Poor Relation: regarding in-service education development programmes as appropriate
assets for our context instead of deficit models for of full contact courses
Teachers Changing Worlds: presenting self-reflective action research of in-service social justice
education student teachers
A case study on RPL: reflexive practice in continuing education for Teacher Development
Copying the Dung-Beetle: classic enablers and resistors in the search for contextually appropriate
teacher learning and knowledge
Harvesting the Bean Pod: PhD proposal: investigating the use of critical social justice education
pedagogy as a contextually appropriate approach to teacher development in South Africa within
the current global context
JAW-ly making the Book of WOMB in the way that Dung Beetles Do: Justice and Women workers
critically self-reflexively document their work in social rights and reproductive health
Dung Beetle Doing: critically self-reflexive praxis for living liberation
Readers are welcomed into participation through a Preamble, leading to a Homestead tour laying
out the terrain within.
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Doctoral Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.