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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483571503321

Autore

Davids Nuraan <1970->

Titolo

Academic Activism in Higher Education : A Living Philosophy for Social Justice / / by Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

981-16-0340-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 169 pages)

Collana

Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, , 2366-2581 ; ; 5

Disciplina

370.115

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Education - Philosophy

Education and state

Educational sociology

Social justice

Higher Education

Educational Philosophy

Educational Policy and Politics

Sociology of Education

Social Justice

Pedagogia crítica

Educació superior

Justícia social

Llibres electrònics

República de Sud-àfrica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Chapter 1. Philosophy of Higher Education and Interpretivism -- Chapter 2. Criticality and Higher Education -- Chapter 3. Turning to the Subjectivity of the Individual -- Chapter 4. Deconstruction through Writing -- Chapter 5. The Pursuit of a Living Philosophy -- Chapter 6. Revolutionary Action -- Chapter 7. A Pedagogy of Courage -- Chapter 8. A Feminist Critique of University Education -- Chapter 9. Academic Activism and the Postmodern



Condition Revisited -- Chapter 10. Through the Agency of the Muselmann -- Postscript: Constraints and impediments to academic activism -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does. It examines why and how a renewed notion of academic activism informs a philosophy of higher education specifically in relation to teaching and learning. The book focuses on the theories and practices of teaching and learning, in particular how such pedagogical actions are guided by social, political and cultural influences outside of the university as a higher education institution. The authors advocate for a living philosophy of higher education that is commensurate with real actions and imaginary fictions of what constitutes higher education and what remains in becoming for the discourse. With a focus on South African social justice education, the book imagines pathways for academic activism to manifest in revolutionised pedagogical actions or actions that bring into contestation what already exists with the possibility for the cultivation of renewal. .