1st Edition
Education, Crisis and Philosophy Ubuntu within Higher 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).
