1st Edition

The Thinking University Expanded On Profanation, Play and Education

By Yusef Waghid, Nuraan Davids Copyright 2020
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

The Thinking University Expanded considers how the university can be extended and developed to an institution of play that becomes a gateway to new compositions and enactments of opportunities and happiness for university academics and students alike. A university of and in continuous play can shape the public sphere in ways that reimagine both the epistemological and political, and the... Read more

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: The thinking university reconsidered

Chapter 2: On searching for truth and the justification for telling the truth

Chapter 3: Student alienation and the democratic mission of a university re-examined

Chapter 4: On some of the limitations of citizenship and the thinking university

Chapter 5: Towards a university beyond critique

Chapter 6: On a university without condition

Chapter 7: Against the exclusive entrepreneurial university

Chapter 8: Al-Rumi and the notion of a university beyond critique

Chapter 9: An argument in defence of a playful university

Chapter 10: On a university in perpetual play

Biography

Yusef Waghid reads Philosophy of Education at Stellenbosch University. He is the editor-in-chief of South African Journal of Higher Education and principal editor of Citizenship Teaching and Learning, South Africa.





Nuraan Davids is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.