Towards an Ubuntu University : African Higher Education Reimagined Hardback
by Yusef Waghid, Judith Terblanche, Lester Brian Shawa, Joseph Pardon Hungwe, Faiq Waghid, Zayd Waghid
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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 university’s 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:197 pages, XX, 197 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:20/04/2023
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- ISBN:9783031064531
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:197 pages, XX, 197 p.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:20/04/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9783031064531
