1st Edition

Ubuntu and Buddhism in Higher Education An Ontological Rethinking

By David Robinson-Morris Copyright 2019
    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    218 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Ubuntu and Buddhism in Higher Education theorizes the equal privileging of ontology and epistemology towards a balanced focus on ‘being-becoming’ and knowledge acquisition within the field of higher education. In response to the shift in higher education’s aims and purposes beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, this book reconsiders higher education and Western subjectivity through southern African (Ubuntu) and Eastern (Buddhist) onto-epistemologies. By mapping these other-than-West ontological viewpoints onto the discourse surrounding higher education, this volume presents a vision of colleges and universities as transformational institutions promoting our shared connection to the human and non-human world, and deepens our understanding of what it means to be a human being.



    I. CHAPTER ONE: TURNING REALITY ON ITS HEAD, (RE)IMAGINING A NEW WAY



    II. CHAPTER TWO: UBUNTU: THE GREAT GIFT OF AFRICA



    III. CHAPTER THREE: BUDDHISM: AN ENGAGEMENT WITH AND IN THE WORLD



    IV. CHAPTER FOUR: A MAP NOT A TRACING: (re)THINKING AS (NON)METHOD



    V. CHAPTER FIVE: THE RECONCEPTUALIZED BEING-HOLON



    VI. CHAPTER 6: LET LEARN AND LET BE: (RE)THINKING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AS ONTO-EPISTEMOLOGICAL WOMBS OF BEING-BECOMING



    VII. CHAPTER 7: EDUCATING FOR A DEEPER HUMANITY: A NEW PLATEAU



    VII. REFERENCES

    Biography

    David W. Robinson-Morris is Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Xavier University of Louisiana and Adjunct Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Education, and Human Development at the University of New Orleans, USA.