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Title
Academic activism in higher education : a living philosophy for social justice / Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid.
ISBN
9789811603402 (electronic bk.)
9811603405 (electronic bk.)
9811603391
9789811603396
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-0340-2 doi
Call Number
LC196.5.S6
Dewey Decimal Classification
370.11/50968
378.68
Summary
This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does. It examines why and how a renewed notion of academic activism informs a philosophy of higher education specifically in relation to teaching and learning. The book focuses on the theories and practices of teaching and learning, in particular how such pedagogical actions are guided by social, political and cultural influences outside of the university as a higher education institution. The authors advocate for a living philosophy of higher education that is commensurate with real actions and imaginary fictions of what constitutes higher education and what remains in becoming for the discourse. With a focus on South African social justice education, the book imagines pathways for academic activism to manifest in revolutionised pedagogical actions or actions that bring into contestation what already exists with the possibility for the cultivation of renewal.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 8, 2021).
Series
Debating higher education ; 5.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811603396
Preface
Chapter 1. Philosophy of Higher Education and Interpretivism
Chapter 2. Criticality and Higher Education
Chapter 3. Turning to the Subjectivity of the Individual
Chapter 4. Deconstruction through Writing
Chapter 5. The Pursuit of a Living Philosophy
Chapter 6. Revolutionary Action
Chapter 7. A Pedagogy of Courage
Chapter 8. A Feminist Critique of University Education
Chapter 9. Academic Activism and the Postmodern Condition Revisited
Chapter 10. Through the Agency of the Muselmann
Postscript: Constraints and impediments to academic activism
Index.