This study sought to re examine the role of family unit in educational endeavours of its children from Confucian and Ubuntu perspectives. Using analytic method, the study philosophically analyses selected educational aims for child upbringing. It also sought to analyse the nature of a child as an educable being, to examine family curriculum content and the associated child pedagogy. The study infers that in as much as family may not be a school in strict sense, it has educational components similar to that of a school, namely: Pedagogical aims, formation content areas(curriculum) and the learner in this case is the child who should be using specific methods for educational ends.
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