@article{1463498,
      recid = {1463498},
      author = {Waghid, Yusef,},
      title = {Towards an ubuntu university : African higher education  reimagined /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {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 purposes that range from individual autonomy,  to public accountability, to serving the interests of the  economy and markets. The question can legitimately be  asked: Is an ubuntu university different from an  entrepreneurial university, thinking university, and  ecological university? While these different understandings  of a university accentuate both the epistemological and  moral imperatives in relation to itself and the societies  in which they manifest, it is through the ubuntu university  that emotivism in the forms of dignity and humaneness will  enhance a universitys capacity for autonomy,  responsibility, and criticality. This book would be of  academic interest to university educators and students in  philosophy of education, comparative education, and  cultural studies. Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor  of Philosophy of Education at Stellenbosch University,  South Africa. He is the author of African Philosophy of  Education Reconsidered: On Being Human (2013). Judith  Terblanche is a chartered accountant and works as an  associate professor at the University of the Western Cape  in South Africa. Lester Brian Shawa is a higher education  expert and holds an honorary seniorship in Higher Education  Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.  Joseph Pardon Hungwe is a postdoctoral fellow at the  University of South Africas College of Education. Faiq  Waghid is Senior Lecturer in educational technology at the  Centre for Innovative Technologies, Cape Peninsula  University of Technology, South Africa. Zayd Waghid is  Associate Professor in business education at the Faculty of  Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South  Africa. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1463498},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06454-8},
}