Lesley Le Grange
Biographic Data
| ID | 1930916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Le Grange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Grange |
| SIGNATURE | LE GRANGE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7096-3609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond Planetary Boundary Thinking
Human activity has driven planet Earth to the brink of ecological collapse, prompting discourses such as planetary boundary (PB) thinking that seek to define thresholds for sustainable living. While PB provides a powerful framework for policy and risk analysis, it is limited by its earth-centric and anthropocentric orientation, technocratic rigidity and tendency to induce eco-anxiety. Moreover, its alignment with global development agendas risks …
Gaza
Nuraan DavidsStellenbosch UniversityI don’t think we need to wait for history to tell us what we already know about Gaza. No amount of legal debates on the plausibility of its genocide status, can
(A Journey) towards an Affirmative Politics for Environmental Education
Environmental education (EE) can never be separated from politics and the relationship between the two is complex, has changed over time, and is understood and experienced differently. The field’s relationship with politics is both internal (its own politics) and external (political forces outside the field) to it. In this article, I narrate my story of engaging with EE, politics and the relationship between the two. I refer to my story as an aut…
South African Higher Education as Mutating Plantation
In 1994, South Africa’s political governance changed from being a White minority-controlled apartheid state to a democracy—a relatively peaceful transition underpinned by a social cohesion and reconciliation ideology, namely, that all (both perpetrators and the oppressed) were victims requiring healing in the new proverbial “rainbow nation.” Reconciling racial fractures, anti-Blackness and unevenness of the higher education landscape, however, re…
Covid-19 pandemic and the prospects of education in South Africa
Cosmo-Ubuntu
CITATION: \nCossa, J., Le Grange, L., & Waghid, Y. (2020). Cosmo-ubuntu: Toward a new (exterior to modernity) theorizing about the human, the cosmos, and education. Comparative Education Review, 64(4), 753-756. https://doi.org/10.1086/710771
Introduction
Might image have replaced substance; illusions substituted for ideas; language overwhelmed experience; text obfuscated world; now ignored the past? Might jargon mask authenticity; conversations cen
The decolonisation of the curriculum project
This book is the result of a longitudinal research project (2016–2018) funded by the National Research Foundation and the Fuchs Foundation, and it disseminates original research. The project researched the affordances of indigenous knowledge in the school science, technology and mathematics curricula. Short learning programmes (SLPs) were offered to STEM teachers, during which they engaged in creative and inquiry-based teaching and learning strat…
A (re)turn to realism(s)
Rethinking the ‘Western Tradition’
This is a reply to an article authored by Enslin and Horsthemke (2014) published in Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT). Enslin and Horsthemke argue that those who they refer to as ‘friends of the subaltern’ pit themselves against a straw-person that is swiftly dismissed in pointing out blindness of the Western tradition. They point out that in doing so ‘friends of the subaltern’ pursue a ‘politics of resentment’. In their reply, Le Grange a…
Ubuntu/Botho as Ecophilosophy and Ecosophy
Environmental problems facing humanity in the 21st century require a reexamination of the beliefs and values that produced them in the first place. In this paper the researcher discusses some of the key environmental challenges facing the southern African region. The researcher point out that, if responses to local environmental problems and the global ecological crisis are to be meaningful (make possible a more sustainable future), then it will …
Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern
Ubuntu, Ukama and the Healing of Nature, Self and Society
The erosion of the three interlocking dimensions of nature, society and self is the consequence of what Felix Guattari referred to as integrated world capitalism (IWC). In South Africa the erosion of nature, society and self is also the consequence of centuries of colonialism and decades of apartheid. In this paper I wish to explore how the African philosophy of ubuntu (humanness), which appears to be anthropocentric, might be invoked to contribu…
The scholarship of integration (re)considered
There has been considerable debate on the nature of scholarship over the past two decades. A key contribution to this debate is a seminal work in which Boyer (1990) articulates an expanded notion of scholarship. One of the four functions of scholarship that Boyer identifies in this expanded view of scholarship is the scholarship of integration. In this article I argue that this function is too narrowly conceived; a broader view of this construct …
The Environment in the Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology Learning Areas for General Education and Training in South Africa
Sustainability and Higher Education
Currently, global society is delicately poised on a civilisational threshold similar to that of the feudal era. This is a time when outmoded institutions, values, and systems of thought and their associated dogmas are ripe for transcendence by more relevant systems of organization and knowledge (Davidson, 2000). The foundations of the modern era (including modern educational institutions) are under sharp scrutiny; the fragmentation of nature, soc…
Integrating Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Embodiment, social praxis and environmental education
The body has been neglected and devalued in Western philosophy. This neglect and devaluation of the body is rooted in dualistic reasoning that has its origin in Greek philosophical thought, and reinforced by philosophers of science during the scientific revolution of 17th century Europe. Dualistic reasoning is in part the cause of current global environmental crises. Moreover, it underpins different approaches to environmental education. In this …
Ubuntu, Ukama and the Healing of Nature, Self and Society
The erosion of the three interlocking dimensions of nature, society and self is the consequence of what Felix Guattari referred to as integrated world capitalism (IWC). In South Africa the erosion of nature, society and self is also the consequence of centuries of colonialism and decades of apartheid. In this paper I wish to explore how the African philosophy of ubuntu (humanness), which appears to be anthropocentric, might be invoked to contribu…
Integrating Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Introduction
Might image have replaced substance; illusions substituted for ideas; language overwhelmed experience; text obfuscated world; now ignored the past? Might jargon mask authenticity; conversations cen
Ubuntu/Botho as Ecophilosophy and Ecosophy
Environmental problems facing humanity in the 21st century require a reexamination of the beliefs and values that produced them in the first place. In this paper the researcher discusses some of the key environmental challenges facing the southern African region. The researcher point out that, if responses to local environmental problems and the global ecological crisis are to be meaningful (make possible a more sustainable future), then it will …
Embodiment, social praxis and environmental education
The body has been neglected and devalued in Western philosophy. This neglect and devaluation of the body is rooted in dualistic reasoning that has its origin in Greek philosophical thought, and reinforced by philosophers of science during the scientific revolution of 17th century Europe. Dualistic reasoning is in part the cause of current global environmental crises. Moreover, it underpins different approaches to environmental education. In this …
South African Higher Education as Mutating Plantation
In 1994, South Africa’s political governance changed from being a White minority-controlled apartheid state to a democracy—a relatively peaceful transition underpinned by a social cohesion and reconciliation ideology, namely, that all (both perpetrators and the oppressed) were victims requiring healing in the new proverbial “rainbow nation.” Reconciling racial fractures, anti-Blackness and unevenness of the higher education landscape, however, re…
Rethinking the ‘Western Tradition’
This is a reply to an article authored by Enslin and Horsthemke (2014) published in Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT). Enslin and Horsthemke argue that those who they refer to as ‘friends of the subaltern’ pit themselves against a straw-person that is swiftly dismissed in pointing out blindness of the Western tradition. They point out that in doing so ‘friends of the subaltern’ pursue a ‘politics of resentment’. In their reply, Le Grange a…
Sustainability and Higher Education
Currently, global society is delicately poised on a civilisational threshold similar to that of the feudal era. This is a time when outmoded institutions, values, and systems of thought and their associated dogmas are ripe for transcendence by more relevant systems of organization and knowledge (Davidson, 2000). The foundations of the modern era (including modern educational institutions) are under sharp scrutiny; the fragmentation of nature, soc…
Gaza
Nuraan DavidsStellenbosch UniversityI don’t think we need to wait for history to tell us what we already know about Gaza. No amount of legal debates on the plausibility of its genocide status, can
Embodiment, social praxis and environmental education
The body has been neglected and devalued in Western philosophy. This neglect and devaluation of the body is rooted in dualistic reasoning that has its origin in Greek philosophical thought, and reinforced by philosophers of science during the scientific revolution of 17th century Europe. Dualistic reasoning is in part the cause of current global environmental crises. Moreover, it underpins different approaches to environmental education. In this …
Integrating Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Sustainability and Higher Education
Currently, global society is delicately poised on a civilisational threshold similar to that of the feudal era. This is a time when outmoded institutions, values, and systems of thought and their associated dogmas are ripe for transcendence by more relevant systems of organization and knowledge (Davidson, 2000). The foundations of the modern era (including modern educational institutions) are under sharp scrutiny; the fragmentation of nature, soc…
The scholarship of integration (re)considered
There has been considerable debate on the nature of scholarship over the past two decades. A key contribution to this debate is a seminal work in which Boyer (1990) articulates an expanded notion of scholarship. One of the four functions of scholarship that Boyer identifies in this expanded view of scholarship is the scholarship of integration. In this article I argue that this function is too narrowly conceived; a broader view of this construct …
The Environment in the Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology Learning Areas for General Education and Training in South Africa
Ubuntu, Ukama and the Healing of Nature, Self and Society
The erosion of the three interlocking dimensions of nature, society and self is the consequence of what Felix Guattari referred to as integrated world capitalism (IWC). In South Africa the erosion of nature, society and self is also the consequence of centuries of colonialism and decades of apartheid. In this paper I wish to explore how the African philosophy of ubuntu (humanness), which appears to be anthropocentric, might be invoked to contribu…
Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern
Ubuntu/Botho as Ecophilosophy and Ecosophy
Environmental problems facing humanity in the 21st century require a reexamination of the beliefs and values that produced them in the first place. In this paper the researcher discusses some of the key environmental challenges facing the southern African region. The researcher point out that, if responses to local environmental problems and the global ecological crisis are to be meaningful (make possible a more sustainable future), then it will …
Rethinking the ‘Western Tradition’
This is a reply to an article authored by Enslin and Horsthemke (2014) published in Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT). Enslin and Horsthemke argue that those who they refer to as ‘friends of the subaltern’ pit themselves against a straw-person that is swiftly dismissed in pointing out blindness of the Western tradition. They point out that in doing so ‘friends of the subaltern’ pursue a ‘politics of resentment’. In their reply, Le Grange a…
A (re)turn to realism(s)
The decolonisation of the curriculum project
This book is the result of a longitudinal research project (2016–2018) funded by the National Research Foundation and the Fuchs Foundation, and it disseminates original research. The project researched the affordances of indigenous knowledge in the school science, technology and mathematics curricula. Short learning programmes (SLPs) were offered to STEM teachers, during which they engaged in creative and inquiry-based teaching and learning strat…
Cosmo-Ubuntu
CITATION: \nCossa, J., Le Grange, L., & Waghid, Y. (2020). Cosmo-ubuntu: Toward a new (exterior to modernity) theorizing about the human, the cosmos, and education. Comparative Education Review, 64(4), 753-756. https://doi.org/10.1086/710771
Introduction
Might image have replaced substance; illusions substituted for ideas; language overwhelmed experience; text obfuscated world; now ignored the past? Might jargon mask authenticity; conversations cen
Covid-19 pandemic and the prospects of education in South Africa
South African Higher Education as Mutating Plantation
In 1994, South Africa’s political governance changed from being a White minority-controlled apartheid state to a democracy—a relatively peaceful transition underpinned by a social cohesion and reconciliation ideology, namely, that all (both perpetrators and the oppressed) were victims requiring healing in the new proverbial “rainbow nation.” Reconciling racial fractures, anti-Blackness and unevenness of the higher education landscape, however, re…
(A Journey) towards an Affirmative Politics for Environmental Education
Environmental education (EE) can never be separated from politics and the relationship between the two is complex, has changed over time, and is understood and experienced differently. The field’s relationship with politics is both internal (its own politics) and external (political forces outside the field) to it. In this article, I narrate my story of engaging with EE, politics and the relationship between the two. I refer to my story as an aut…
Gaza
Nuraan DavidsStellenbosch UniversityI don’t think we need to wait for history to tell us what we already know about Gaza. No amount of legal debates on the plausibility of its genocide status, can
Beyond Planetary Boundary Thinking
Human activity has driven planet Earth to the brink of ecological collapse, prompting discourses such as planetary boundary (PB) thinking that seek to define thresholds for sustainable living. While PB provides a powerful framework for policy and risk analysis, it is limited by its earth-centric and anthropocentric orientation, technocratic rigidity and tendency to induce eco-anxiety. Moreover, its alignment with global development agendas risks …
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)