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  • Reclaiming Democratic Education

    Rethinking Policy and Praxis in Universities

    by Yusef Waghid ...
    Looking back to the initial optimism about democratic educational transformation in post-apartheid South Africa, philosopher of education Yusef Waghid asks how the promise of profound change in universities has floundered, and how it can be recovered.In an era marked by rising authoritarianism, managerialism, and technocratic imperatives, higher education risks becoming a factory of credentialing ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Authoritarianism, Resistance, and the Future of Democratic Education in South Africa

    The University Betrayed

    by Yusef Waghid ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Through a fusion of autoethnography and critical theory, this bold, cutting-edge volume examines how South African universities, instead of fulfilling their post-apartheid promise of democratic transformation, have become sites of bureaucratic control, epistemic erasure, and neoliberal authoritarianism.Drawing on African critical theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ... Read more

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  • Living African Philosophy of Higher Education

    by Yusef Waghid ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book draws on more than three decades of scholarly engagement and provides a sustained argument for a transformative philosophy grounded in three interrelated genres of human action, i.e. ubuntu (communal dignity and respect); deliberative iteration (dialogue and critical engagement), and political resistance (oppositional agency against injustice). In advancing these genres, the book offers ... Read more

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  • Philosophical, Educational, and Moral Openings in Doctoral Pursuits and Supervision

    Promoting the Values of Wonder, Wander, and Whisper in African Higher Education

    by Yusef Waghid ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This timely volume conceptualises and applies the philosophical notions of wonder, wander, and whisper, serving as evaluative paradigms for objective assessment of quality doctoral research work and supervision in South African higher education.Written by one of the foremost academics in the field, the book combines the normative philosophical, educational, and moral notions of wonder, wander, and ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Education, Crisis and Philosophy

    Ubuntu within Higher Education

    by Yusef Waghid ...
    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    This book brings together a discussion of educational philosophy, nihilism and humanity to rethink education in times of crisis, with a particular focus on teaching and learning in universities.The book argues that an educational crisis manifests when the value of academic institutions come under attack, looking closely at how higher education practices have been devalued. The book is situated in ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education

    Pedagogy and Nuances of Care

    by Yusef Waghid ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book advances a re-imagined view of caring in higher education. The author proposes an argument of rhythmic caring, whereby teachers hold back or release their judgments in such a way that students’ judgments are influenced accordingly. In doing so, the author argues that rhythmic caring encourages students to become more willing and confident in articulating their understandings, judgments ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Towards an Ubuntu University

    African Higher Education Reimagined

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the argument to reconsider the idea of a university in light of the African ethic of ubuntu; literally, human dignity and interdependence. The book discusses, through the context of higher education discourse of philosophy and comparative education, how global universities have evolved into higher educational institutions concerned with knowledge (re)production for various end ... Read more

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  • Teachers Matter

    Educational Philosophy and Authentic Learning

    Who are our teachers? Should we care about who teaches our children? Because who they are, matters. It matters because who teachers are, manifests in how they teach. The authors’ analyses of prominent teachers in Anglo-Saxon philosophy of education and Muslim philosophy of education, coupled with their own narratives of what it means to be and become a teacher inform the central theme of this book ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Rupturing African Philosophy on Teaching and Learning

    Ubuntu Justice and Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines African philosophy of education and the enactment of ubuntu justice through a massive open online course on Teaching for Change. The authors argue that such pedagogic encounters have the potential to stimulate just and democratic human relations: encounters that are critical, deliberate, reflective and compassionate could enable just and democratic human relations to flourish, ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and Education as Action

    Implications for Teacher Education

    Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid teach philosophy of education to students, who are completing a post-graduate certificate in education (PGCE) in order to qualify as teachers. They make the argument that philosophy and education are intertwined as action concepts with the potential to affect teacher education practices. Philosophy and Education as Action: Implications for Teacher Education endeavors ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Cosmopolitan Education and Inclusion

    Human Engagement and the Self

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book expands understanding of cosmopolitan education that has the potentialto cultivate deliberative pedagogical encounters in universities. The authorsargue that cosmopolitan education in itself is an act of engaging with strangeness,otherness, difference and inclusion/exclusion. What follows is the engenderingof inclusive human encounters in which freedom and rationality – guidedby co ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Thinking University Expanded

    On Profanation, Play and Education

    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    The Thinking University Expanded considers how the university can be extended and developed to an institution of play that becomes a gateway to new compositions and enactments of opportunities and happiness for university academics and students alike. A university of and in continuous play can shape the public sphere in ways that reimagine both the epistemological and political, and the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD