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Musengi, Martin – American Annals of the Deaf, 2023
The African worldview of Ubuntu predates Vygotskian theory, but the Ubuntu view that the community defines the person aligns uncannily with Vygotsky's biosocial proposition and contemporary conceptions of deaf ontology and epistemology. Unlike prevailing Euro-American thought, Ubuntu accentuates the view that it is not any physical or…
Descriptors: African Culture, World Views, Decolonization, Deafness
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Musengi, Martin; Ndofirepi, Amasa; Shumba, Almon – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2013
The study explores the communication challenges faced by teacher trainees in teaching deaf learners and the opportunities that they present. A critical disabilities study approach within the qualitative paradigm was employed to collect interview data from 14 trainee teachers (6 were men and 8 women) and 5 of their specialist mentors (all of them…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Sign Language, Foreign Countries