Chronicles on African Philosophy of Higher Education

A Colloquy Among Friends
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54378-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

Reihe: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives

The central argument in this book revolves around the significance of an African philosophy of higher education. Such a philosophy is geared towards cultivating democratic iterations, co-belonging, and critique within human encounters. Together, these actions can enhance intellectual activism within and beyond the encounters. A philosophy of higher education is constituted by a philosophical act of reflexivity according to which (how), freedom (both autonomous and communal), cosmopolitanism (learning to live with differences and otherness), and caring with others (ubuntu) can be rhythmically practised. What makes an African philosophy of higher education distinctive and realisable is that practices ought to be based on iterations, co-belonging, and critique. If intellectual activism were not to become a major act of resistance on the basis of which educational, political, and societal dystopias can be undermined, such a philosophy of higher education would not have a real purpose. An African philosophy of higher education is an intellectually activist endeavour because of its concern to be oppositional to constraints in and about higher education. In conversation with such an understanding of this philosophy, contributors to this volume offer responses to why human freedom, cosmopolitanism, and caring with others (ubuntu) can be rhythmically enacted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Waghid, Yusef

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Emiliano Bosio

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Understanding African Philosophy of Higher Education: On Philosophical Reflexivity

Yusef Waghid

1 Towards an African Philosophy of Higher Education

Yusef Waghid

2 Repositioning African Philosophy of Higher Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Thokozani Mathebula

3 Pedagogy That Encapsulates Rhythmic Caring: Towards an African Philosophy of Higher Education

Judith Terblanche

4 An Ubuntu Philosophy of Higher Education as Justice

Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu

5 The Potentiality of Cultivating a Culture of Mutuality in a Multicultural Society: A Transformative Pedagogical Encounter with the Other

Monica Zembere and Innocent Madenga

6 Equipping Aspiring Chartered Accountants as Responsible Leaders: Towards an African Philosophy of Higher Education within the Higher Education Accounting Pedagogy

Elton Pullen

7 African Philosophy of Higher Education for Human Formation and Civil Society Development: Engaging Yusef Waghid’s Philosophical Ideas

Lester Brian Shawa

8 Higher Education in Zimbabwe

Evelyn Chiyevo Garwe and Juliet Thondhlana

9 Broadening the Scope of the Discourse on Africanisation of Higher Education to Encompass Quality Assurance and Promotion

Amani T. Saidi and Sindisiwe P. Mbhele

10 Higher Education in Somalia: Historical and Contemporary Analyses

Ali A. Abdi and Abdiqani A. Farah

11 Reimagining Educational Technology (EdTech) through Ubuntu

Faiq Waghid and Zayd Waghid

12 African Philosophy with(out) Philosophers: Revisiting the ‘African’ Philosopher of Education in African Higher Education

Joseph Pardon Hungwe

13 A ‘Decolonial Turn’ in Higher Education: Some Reflections

Philip Higgs

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His most recent (co)authored books include Education, Crisis, and Philosophy: Ubuntu within Higher Education (Routledge, 2022); Democratic Education as Inclusion (Lexington Books, 2022), Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); and Academic Activism in Higher Education: A Living Philosophy for Social Justice (Springer, 2021).