Academic Activism in Higher Education
A Living Philosophy for Social Justice
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- Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-29
- Mått:155 x 235 x 12 mm
- Vikt:318 g
- Format:Häftad
- Språk:Engelska
- Serie:Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives
- Antal sidor:169
- Upplaga:22001
- Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- ISBN:9789811603426
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Nuraan Davids is a Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include democratic citizenship education; Islamic philosophy of education; and philosophy in higher in education. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies; an Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education and an Editorial Board Member of Ethics and Education. She is a CASBS fellow at Stanford University (2020 – 2021).Yusef Waghid holds doctorates in education, policy, and philosophy from the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in South Africa respectively and is among Africa’s leading philosophers of education today. As a distinguished professor at Stellenbosch University he has been a prolific author with 380 publications to date of which forty-three are academic books and seventy-three invited contributions to books. His commitment to the advancement of doctoral education including having promoted thirty-one candidates to completion and examined seventy-eight doctorates culminated in having been honoured by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa in 2015 as a worthy recipient of the prestigious Education Research in Africa Award: Outstanding Mentor of Education Researchers. In recognition of his scholarly works and having published in many of the leading journals in his field, the National Research Foundation in South Africa rated him as an internationally acclaimed scholar who provides exemplary leadership in advancing philosophy of higher education in Africa. He was honoured with the editorships of two prominent academic journals, namely Citizenship, Teaching and Learning (since 2018), and South African Journal of Higher Education (since 2005) through which he meritoriously supports scholars to publish their seminal works. From 2020 to 2021, he collaborated with renowned international scholarson a leading UNESCO pioneered research project, Education for Flourishing and Flourishing in Education initiated by the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. His advancement of higher education in Africa is also acknowledged by the Council of Higher Education in South Africa of which he has been a board member since 2019.
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- 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.
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