The perspectives of nursing students regarding the incorporation of African traditional indigenous knowledge in the curriculum

Ngunyulu, Roinah Nkhensani; Sepeng, Nombulelo Veronica; Moeta, Mabitja; Lukhele, Sanele; Mulaudzi, Fhumulani Mavis; Peu, Mmapheko Doriccah

doi:10.4102/phcfm.v12i1.2171

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“…Combining both ( Ubuntu as an innate instinct to care for others and caring in nursing as a professional call of duty to care) may help achieve wholeness by proving holistic care that holistic nursing enshrines. This finding agrees with a previous study that investigated the possible impact of integrating African traditional indigenous knowledge into the curriculum of health care sciences (Ngunyulu et al, 2020). The authors reported that students believe that the inclusion of African traditional indigenous knowledge into the curriculums of health sciences disciplines taught at African Universities has the potential to improve the humanness of the graduates of those courses and may help them deliver culturally-acceptable services to their clients and patients.…”

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Ubuntu as an Instrument to Foster Holistic Nursing: The Views of South African Student Nurses

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Introduction: Ubuntu is an African philosophy that reflects holistic and comprehensive care among people in the community. Holistic nursing is a philosophy of caring that focuses on holistic healing and humanism. The purpose of the study was to explore the views of the South African final-year student nurses on the ability of Ubuntu to foster holistic nursing. Methods: An exploratory descriptive qualitative method was used. Eight focus group interviews were conducted with final-year student nurses at selected universities. Colaizzi seven steps process of data analysis was utilized. Results: One of the themes that emerged was that Ubuntu can be an instrument to foster holistic nursing Ubuntu and holistic nursing share many common attributes, hence, the teaching and learning of Ubuntu could foster the type of caring embodied by holistic nursing. Discussion: Ubuntu represents an important care philosophy that can foster holistic nursing, especially when the inner driving force of the nurses is primarily to care for patients.

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Ubuntu as an Instrument to Foster Holistic Nursing: The Views of South African Student Nurses

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“…For example, higher education institutions continue to teach curricula that may not be responsive to the needs of the current student generation and to the community they serve (Rispel, 2020). Although changes are gradually being integrated, the country's educational institutions, including those that offer nursing education, have a long history of structural and systemic inequalities and continue to offer Eurocentric nursing education and curricula (McGibbon et al, 2014; Ngunyulu et al, 2020). Western colonial administrative practices in educational institutions manifest through a single controlling, exploitive, top-down leadership that meets alternative views with apprehension, thus stifling the self-knowledge, self-reflection, and self-leadership of their educators (Khalifa et al, 2019).…”

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Towards Decolonizing the Self: Nurse Educators’ Engagement in Personal Mastery

Matahela,

van Rensburg

2023

Creative Nursing

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Background: Nursing education in South Africa is undergoing reforms to respond to changes brought about by a new higher education qualifications framework. These reforms are happening in an era when leaders, educators, and students in higher education institutions are engaged in dialogs about decolonizing institutions, curricula, and pedagogy. Of the numerous calls for this decolonization, few have given attention to decolonizing the self. Confronting coloniality in educational institutions may elicit resistance to change and feelings of discomfort, anxiety, and fear. Engagement in personal mastery practices could be useful for nurse educators engaged in efforts to confront and deal with their own discourses that may embody and promote coloniality. Aim: This article explores how nurse educators can utilize personal mastery in dealing with their own perceived coloniality, focusing on taking ownership of self-leadership during a reflection on one's own behavior as a nurse educator. Methods: Drawn from the findings of a mixed-methods study, the integrated data prompted three themes addressing self-leadership: Taking ownership, motivational factors, and facilitating self-leadership in nurse educators. Conclusion: Engagement in personal mastery could assist nurse educators in bringing about decoloniality in nursing education institutions. Implications for Practice: Institutions should provide nurse educators with environments that support continuous professional development.

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“…Viewed from a Fanonian perspective, a wrong diagnosis, which is not anchored on an understanding of the sociocultural and political factors, leads to a faulty medical solution (Fanon, 1965(Fanon, , 1967Sikuade, 2012). Thus, there is a need for holistic and culturally relevant nursing curricula based on local values, beliefs worldviews and philosophies to be taught at training institutions (Moeta et al, 2019;Ngunyulu et al, 2020).…”

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“…Here, the core of cultural racism was that former Third World countries were inferior, cultural, politically, economically, and otherwise, and that white settlers were saviors who were there to assist black peoples to progress in any means (Arukwe, 2022). Therefore, colonization was the beginning of the denigration of African approaches to health, belief systems, and ways of life (Ngunyulu et al, 2020). The prejudice against Indigenous approaches to health as was the case during the COVID-19 pandemic is arguably a continuation of the colonial legacy, invalorization, and subjugation.…”

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“…They believe that western biomedicine is more effective and scientific in treating many health conditions because it is based on empirical evidence and is modern in comparison to African traditional medicine. This kind of western and colonially induced mindset has tended to view African Indigenous ideologies, philosophies, epistemologies, and approaches to health as unscientific, inferior, and associated with witchcraft, paganism, and barbarism, while western knowledge is perceived as superior and universal (Mokhutso, 2021; Ned, 2019; Nemutandani et al, 2021; Ngunyulu et al, 2020).…”

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Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Saruchera,

Xaba

2023

Journal of Black Studies

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This article engages the perpetual denigration of African Traditional Knowledge System (ATKS) by African governments in favor of western biomedical approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. We demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the spotlight on the alternative approaches to health and the need for a holistic and broader understanding of these practices in Africa. Using a literature review on health sectors across Africa and cases of traditional health medicines and use in selected countries, we show the Afro cosmo vision and understanding of health, and we make a case for a non-western health approach that is holistic, endogenous, and community-centered. We argue that health approaches need to be anchored on proper understanding of African societies, whose approach to health encompasses the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspect of one’s existence. Our work lends support for the importance of having a multidimensional holistic health system and approach for universal health coverage (UHC) toward the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa which encompasses ATKS in dealing with pandemics.

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The perspectives of nursing students regarding the incorporation of African traditional indigenous knowledge in the curriculum

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Ubuntu as an Instrument to Foster Holistic Nursing: The Views of South African Student Nurses

Ubuntu as an Instrument to Foster Holistic Nursing: The Views of South African Student Nurses

Towards Decolonizing the Self: Nurse Educators’ Engagement in Personal Mastery

Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemic Era

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