1st Edition
Education, Crisis and Philosophy Ubuntu within Higher Education
This book brings together a discussion of educational philosophy, nihilism and humanity to rethink education in times of crisis, with a particular focus on teaching and learning in universities.
The book argues that an educational crisis manifests when the value of academic institutions come under attack, looking closely at how higher education practices have been devalued. The book is situated in the context of three intertwined crises; the coronavirus pandemic, economic decline resulting in poverty and unemployment, and the crisis of human migration. It questions what the role of education is, or ought to be, in times of crisis and how our humanity ought to be cultivated during such turbulent times.
This novel and timely text will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of educational philosophy, higher education and international education.
Foreword
José Cossa
Preface
Chapter 1, Education reconsidered during turbulent times
Chapter 2, Education and the cultivation of humanity
Chapter 3, Deepening of crises and their implications for human living: In defence of global justice
Chapter 4, On the crisis of education: The explosion of online education
Chapter 5, Can philosophical thinking enhance educational encounters?
Chapter 6, Can a spiritual life impede an educational crisis?
Chapter 7, Does a concept of community offer a way to counteract a crisis?
Chapter 8, Revisiting democratic citizenship education as a riposte to an educational crisis
Chapter 9, Against boredom: Cultivating a blissful academic space for happiness
Chapter 10, Reconsidering ubuntu: Towards an ethic of human flourishing that is "human, all too human"
CODA: Remote teaching during a time of crises in Higher Education in South Africa
Zayd Waghid and and Faiq Waghid
In Response to the CODA on Remote Teaching: On the decolonization of Higher Education in South Africa.
Biography
Yusef Waghid is distinguished professor of philosophy of education at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is the author of Towards a philosophy of caring in higher education: pedagogy and nuances of care (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019).
