Motsamai Molefe: Ubuntu Ethics and Higher Education: Creating Responsible Citizens

[Paul Michael]

Dear All, 

The SARChI Chair in Higher Education and Human Development (HEHD) is pleased to invite you to the sixth session of the Webinar Series for the first semester of 2026.  In this session, Molefe examines higher education loss of core aim, its increasingly instrumentalized nature and tendency towards economic productivity and credentialing.  He argues that the core aim of higher education must be recovered and reoriented toward the cultivation of responsible citizens, and that Ubuntu ethics provides the most generative philosophical framework for articulating what such citizenship demands, why it matters, and what it produces in the world. 

We look forward to your participation in this exciting, engaging, and timely conversation.

Date: Monday 1^st June 2026 

Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (South African Standard Time).

Title: Ubuntu Ethics and Higher Education: Creating Responsible Citizens

 

Presenter:  Motsamai Molefe, University of South Africa (Unisa), Graduate School of Business Leadership

Discussant: Dr. Precious Simba, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Chair: Moreblessing Chipangura, Doctoral Fellow, University of the Free State, South Africa

Abstract and Bio attached. 

Please feel free to share widely across your networks. See you there!

See the invitation link below. 

Kind regards,

Paul K Michael

University of the Free State, 

Bloemfontein Campus.

HEHD research programme

Benito Khotseng Building, Room 209 Senate Street North 

South Africa 

Microsoft Teams meeting

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/370758212555574?p=Bib5ifvEOfH47ehg7C

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