PDU3701 Assignment 2 2023 Accurate Answers
Question 1
1.1 Community
Community and the notion of belonging to a community of people constitute the very
fabric of traditional African life. This stands in contrast to the Western liberal notion
of the individual as some sort of entity that is capable of existing and flourishing on
its own – unconnected to any community of other individuals, not bound by any.
biological relationships or the socio-economic, political and cultural relationships,
obligations, duties, responsibilities and conventions that frame and define a
community of individuals. The following two quotes emphasise the importance of
community rather than individuality, past and present: Our two-million year
heritage of hunting-and gathering life, simple at first but ultimately very complex,
left its mark on our minds just as much as it did on our bodies. On top of the
technical skills of planning, coordination, and technology, there was, equally
important, the social skill of cooperation. A sense of common goals and values, a
desire to further the common good, cooperation was more than simply individuals
working together. It became a set of rules of conduct, of morals, an understanding
of right and wrong in a complex social system. Without cooperation – within bands,
, among bands, through tribal groups – our technical skills would have been severely
blunted. Social rules and standards of behaviour emerged.1 The value of
communality is important for education, because it is rooted in a welfare concern
where the basis of communality gives priority to the community and shows respect
for the person. It also involves sharing with others and helping them in a spirit of
cooperation.
1.2 A Fact
A factual statement would be something like ‘‘It is raining outside’’. This statement
can be proved right or wrong. Factual statements are different from value
statements. in the sense that value statements cannot be proven right or wrong.
Values are something important to you personally. However, values do not fit into
the thinking paradigm of empiricism, because there is no scientific clarification for
values. Objective truth is important in this frame of reference and subjective truth is
regarded as less significant.
1.3 Pragmatism
Pragmatism teaches that the truth of a statement is found in its consequences. This
means that Pragmatism encourages us to experiment. Pragmatism, then, promotes.
education as a form of experimentation. Pragmatism says that ‘truth’ is not
Question 1
1.1 Community
Community and the notion of belonging to a community of people constitute the very
fabric of traditional African life. This stands in contrast to the Western liberal notion
of the individual as some sort of entity that is capable of existing and flourishing on
its own – unconnected to any community of other individuals, not bound by any.
biological relationships or the socio-economic, political and cultural relationships,
obligations, duties, responsibilities and conventions that frame and define a
community of individuals. The following two quotes emphasise the importance of
community rather than individuality, past and present: Our two-million year
heritage of hunting-and gathering life, simple at first but ultimately very complex,
left its mark on our minds just as much as it did on our bodies. On top of the
technical skills of planning, coordination, and technology, there was, equally
important, the social skill of cooperation. A sense of common goals and values, a
desire to further the common good, cooperation was more than simply individuals
working together. It became a set of rules of conduct, of morals, an understanding
of right and wrong in a complex social system. Without cooperation – within bands,
, among bands, through tribal groups – our technical skills would have been severely
blunted. Social rules and standards of behaviour emerged.1 The value of
communality is important for education, because it is rooted in a welfare concern
where the basis of communality gives priority to the community and shows respect
for the person. It also involves sharing with others and helping them in a spirit of
cooperation.
1.2 A Fact
A factual statement would be something like ‘‘It is raining outside’’. This statement
can be proved right or wrong. Factual statements are different from value
statements. in the sense that value statements cannot be proven right or wrong.
Values are something important to you personally. However, values do not fit into
the thinking paradigm of empiricism, because there is no scientific clarification for
values. Objective truth is important in this frame of reference and subjective truth is
regarded as less significant.
1.3 Pragmatism
Pragmatism teaches that the truth of a statement is found in its consequences. This
means that Pragmatism encourages us to experiment. Pragmatism, then, promotes.
education as a form of experimentation. Pragmatism says that ‘truth’ is not
