ABSTRACT
The chapter conceptualises character education in African culture, building on studies and people’'s experiences. The chapter has two fundamental parts: the '‘indigenous character education,'’ and the ubuntu academic conceptualisation of character education. The first view focuses on ordinary people'’s practices within the traditional African setting. It divides character education into formal and informal systems. Formal refers to institutional systems such as education through initiation rites, while informal concentrates on an individual'’s experience. The second view, ubuntu and character education, builds on insights from ubuntu philosophy and its modes of virtue transmission and acquisition. This depends more on the views of the academics working on the concept of Ubuntu.
