Enabling teachers as front liners in maintaining learners' emotional well-being during Covid-19 context
| dc.contributor.author | Lephoto, Malephoto Niko Ruth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-16T11:19:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-16T11:19:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-01-27 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article is an attempt to theoretically present Ubuntu/Botho philosophy as a complementary approach to guide efforts intended to restore and maintain positive emotional well-being among African Basotho school going children and youth during COVID-19 and beyond. Research shows that COVID-19 pandemic has impacted badly on school systems, particularly teaching and learning process and school life in general. The central assumption driving this paper is that factors emanating from Covid-19 pandemic do not only contribute to the damage of learning process for many learners, but they also contribute to a mental and emotional health crisis, as a result of lost access to services that are naturally offered by schools. Informed by Ubuntu/Botho philosophy, the paper argues that schools have moral obligation to protect learners’ emotional health as a crucial variable for both their complete psychosocial well-being and academic achievement. It looks at maintenance of emotional well-being from the lens of Ubuntu/Botho world view. Ubuntu/Botho adoption as a theoretical framework is an effort to contribute knowledge and suggest practice that have their foundation on the experiences of people, informed by their own sociological and cultural constructs. Ubuntu/Botho as a guiding principle places values such as compassion, empathy, sharing, respect, solidarity at the centre of human co-existence, thus, has the potential to create school relationships and support systems that can restore and maintain positive emotions. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Self | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2642-2328 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14155/2154 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Scholink | en |
| dc.subject | COVID-19, enabling, Front liners, Maintaining, Emotional well-being, Ubuntu/Botho | en |
| dc.title | Enabling teachers as front liners in maintaining learners' emotional well-being during Covid-19 context | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Ubuntu/Botho as a guiding principle | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
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