Towards an ubuntu university : African higher education reimagined / Yusef Waghid [and 5 more].
Waghid, Yusef, author.
2022
LA1503 .T69 2022
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Title Towards an ubuntu university : African higher education reimagined / Yusef Waghid [and 5 more].
ISBN 9783031064548 electronic book
3031064542 electronic book
9783031064531
3031064534
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06454-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-06454-8 doi
Call Number LA1503 .T69 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.00967
Summary 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. .
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Chapter 1. The University in the Context of Global and Local Knowledge Interests
Chapter 2. On the Transformation of the Public University in South Africa: Towards a Rupturing of Higher Education
Chapter 3. Ubuntu as an African Ethic for Higher Educational Transformation or Not?
Chapter 4. Ubuntu as an Act of Collaborative Engagement and Co-belonging: Implications for the Public University
Chapter 5. Towards an African University of Objective Reason, Conscience and Humility
Chapter 6. (Re)-imagining the Indaba Concept: In Quest for a Communal African University of Deliberation, Freedom of Expression and Equality
Chapter 7. Communality, Responsibility and Public Good for Social Justice in University Education: Some Critical Reflections on an African University
Chapter 8. An African University and Claims of Democratic Citizenship Education
Chapter 9. Teaching and Learning as Transformative Acts of Comparative Education
Chapter 10. Teaching and Learning as Critique, Taking Risks and Disruption
Chapter 11. An African University, Caring with Humanity and Decolonisation
Chapter 12. Towards an Ubuntu University of Technology.

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