Towards Humanising the Future Justice in the Shadow of Colonialism – A Transformative Learning Approach

Uwe H. Bittlingmayer studied Sociology, Philosophy and Political Science at the Institute of Sociology, Muenster University. He made his PhD at the same institute with a critical study about the knowledge society. Later on he worked in several third-funded projects at Bielefeld University at the Faculty of Public Health. Finally, he became full professor for general sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Education Freiburg. 

Reinhart Kößler studied sociology, history, in particular Eastern European history and ethnology at the University of Heidelberg and Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds. He took his doctorate in sociology 1978 at the University of Münster and his senior doctorate (Habilitation) in 1987 also at Münster. He pursues a long-time interest in southern Africa, for many years with a focus on Namibia, combining scholarly and activist pursuits. After retiring as Director of the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg in 2015, he remains an associate there as well as at the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Free State, South Africa. 

Charmaine Villet completed her Ph.D. studies in Curriculum and Instructional Leadership at Ohio University in the USA. She teaches in the Department of Applied Educational Sciences in the School of Education at the University of Namibia. Charmaine participated and led prominent studies on educational reform and transformation with the World Bank, UNESCO, the EU, the AU and in Namibia and the SADC region. She served as the co-chair of the International Taskforce on Teachers for Education 2030/UNESCO from 2016 – 2018 and heads the sub-cluster on Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education under the African Union’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa/ CESA 2016-25 as articulated in the African Union’s vision of Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want.