Review of the IiNtetho zoBomi course Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics
Review of the IiNtetho zoBomi course Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics
Book Launch: Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question
Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question
RUCE Community Engagement Conference.
Community Engagement And The Trajectory Of Community-University-Society Relationship: Past, Present And Future Possibilities.
Rhodes University and AGCLE host 2023 Top 100 awards
Last week, Rhodes University made history by hosting the 2023 Top 100 Awards in partnership with the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE).
Humanising pedagogy by celebrating ethical leadership
The Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE) is thrilled to announce its partnership with the Career Centre and sponsorship of the annual Top 100 Student Awards. Henceforth, the awards will be known as the “Rhodes University & Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics Top 100 Student Leadership Awards”.
It’s important to rethink the purpose of university education – a philosopher of education explains why
Most philosophers of education or philosophically inclined scholars of education in the past century and a half would agree with the claim that, ideally, education should be the practice of freedom. That is, it ought to cultivate the ability to intelligently decide how we want to shape our lives. The aim of education should be to foster human autonomy.
Rhodes University academic recognised in the Sunday World’s phenomenal women feature
Rhodes University senior lecturer at the Philosophy department, Dr Lindsay Kelland, was featured in the Sunday World’s phenomenal women feature for 2022.
Philosophy lecturer awarded for community engagement excellence
Mapula Maponya from the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE), is the recipient of the 2020 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Award for Community Engagement.
A Shock Court Ruling Could Save South Africa’s Broken Towns
A court order to disband municipal council jolts President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ruling party
Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference
* Examines essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African societies * Explores identity and difference as it unfolds in African philosophical contexts both within and outside the African continent * Offers a critical analysis of the very nature and essence of difference that makes such manifestations possible
AGCLE’s flagship course receives positive worldwide attention
The Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE) at Rhodes University recently received a glowing appraisal for its flagship course, IiNtheto zoBomi, amid an increase in international attention.
Rhodes University honours late alumnus, philanthropist, Allan Gray
The Rhodes University community is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr Allan William Buchanan Gray. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his wife, Gill, daughter Jennifer, and his two sons, William and Trevor.
#StartupCapsule #Ethics #Entrepreneurship
Do you suffer from the "challenge of being able to see what is right in front of you"?
The university course that changed everything
I signed up for the IiNtetho zoBomi course because my friend told me that it was relatively easy. As a second-year Law and Journalism major at Rhodes University, my goal was to lighten up my load as much I could. A course without tests and exams sounded like a dream. I thought I could pass with relatively minimal effort.
UN gets a helping hand from Rhodes University
Rhodes University on Thursday said Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE), Professor Pedro Tabensky, had developed a learning module for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under its Education for Justice (E4J) initiative
The Revolutionary Impetus
“The revolutionary impetus emerges in situations of radical injustice, where the political order advantages one group at the cost of another and where those in power are largely deaf to legitimate demands for justice from the underclass,” Pedro Tabensky, Professor of Philosophy, Rhodes University.
Existential Conversations
2400 years ago in the gardens of Academe in Greece a group of people committed to understanding their lives established what today we call the ‘academy’ (or university).
St George’s to take part in leadership initiative.
ST GEORGE’S College is among 22 schools from around the country that will benefit through an initiative made available by Kingswood College in Grahamstown with the roll out of a “By Youth For Youth” (BY4Y) initiative.
Divided City: Breaking the pact of silence
I want to love my brother as one should love a brother.
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For the third session of the AGCLE movie series we will be watching The Lives of Others (2006), a German film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film is about a member of the secret police in East Berlin who, while spying on a writer and his lover, finds himself increasingly absorbed by their lives.
For and excellent review, click on
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lives-of-others-2007-1
Venue: Eden Grove, Blue
Date: Thursday, 12 March
Time: 19:00
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday
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Tales of A divided City: Prepared for a life I cannot have
Siyanda Centwa and Pedro Tabensky explore the implications of Ukwaluka (initiation).
Tales of a Divided City: The value of gang rape
We need to understand why it is the case that gang rape is happening so often in our township if we wish to address its destructive force.
2015 Research Fellowships and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Fellowships will initially be granted for one year, starting in January 2015 (but this date is negotiable), renewable for a second (and, possibly, subject to performance and funding, for a third year).
2015 MA and PhD Fellowships at the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics
These are highly competitive fellowships for students interested in interdisciplinary work bridging basic theoretical socio-psychological and ethical concerns with concrete interventions aimed at encouraging ethical behavior.
Tales of a divided City: In praise of potholes
I must confess to being rather fond of potholes.
Tales of a divided City: You Must Have Enjoyed It if You Survived’
Philosophers Lindsay Kelland and Pedro Tabensky explore what seems to logically follow from a comment made to a rape survivor by a man who seems to think that at some level rape is an acceptable practice.
Breaking the pact of silence
My mother was raped by a church elder, something that would affect the rest of her life. This made what happened after, something even worse.
Reflections on Gaza: How should my people be?
As the son of a Holocaust survivor and a refugee of mid-20th century turmoil, knowledge of the precariousness of existence has always been part of the fabric of my life, and has motivated me permanently to ask: How should I be in a way that pays respect to the suffering of my forbearers? Or, to put the point more generally, how should my people be?
Prof Pityana set to 'retire from retirement'
USING the words of former South Africa president Nelson Mandela, Professor Barney Pityana will be "retiring from retirement" when he steps down as rector of the Grahamstown College of the Transfiguration at the end of the year.
Out of the armchair, into the world
The contemporary South African academic community has a rare opportunity. Unlike many other places around the globe
South African academics debate community engagement
Community engagement is increasingly playing a key role in university life in South Africa, but the concept itself remains underexplored.
The rot of corruption feeds on impunity of the powerful
I cannot recall one constructive proposal to combat corruption coming out of the ANC or opposition parties.
Tales of a divided City
The 'I' in the following article is fictional. He was created in order to highlight the very real issues discussed in this article.
Rape and power
We need to understand why it is the case that gang rape is happening so often in our township if we wish to address its destructive force.
Vote 'no' to the nightmare of Zuma's ANC
SA deserves better than to be ruled by a party that flirts with totalitarianism, writes Barney Pityana.
A tear in our fabric
The scandals that plague President Jacob Zuma don’t only call his integrity into question, but that of the office itself.
Tales of a Divided City: Not a place for peasants
I came to study at Rhodes in 2013 after spending a year at Gadra Matric school, working to improve my matric results.
Rhodes alumnus promotes leadership ethics
The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation in-conjunction with Rhodes University officially launched the Allan Gray Centre For Leadership Ethics
SA's reality: absence of ethics at leadership level
OUR reality is that too many who occupy positions of power, and are entrusted with the leadership are sorely wanting in the core values
Burning envy
This is a collaborative piece between learners from Ntsika Secondary School and Pedro Tabensky. The learners have been having conversations with him for a few months and wish through this article to reflect their thoughts and feelings about growing up in Grahamstown East.The result is a reconstruction of these conversations.
Under a terrible spell
Noluthando was allegedly possessed by izizwe (spirits). Her boyfriend from Katlegong, it seems, put them inside her.
“Making a former white South African university function in a way that is not racist is not easy”
Rhodes University senior lecturer in the Political and International Studies Department, Dr Sally Matthews will deliver a paper entitled “(White) Privilege and Institutional Culture” at Rhodes University Institutional Culture Roundtable on Saturday (14 September) at Gavin Relly Post Grad Village.