Philosophical, Educational, Moral Openings in Doctoral Pursuits - Promoting Values of Wonder, Wander, Whisper in African Higher

This timely volume conceptualises and applies the philosophical notions of wonder, wander, and whisper, serving as evaluative paradigms for objective assessment of quality doctoral research work and supervision in South African higher education.

List of contents

Chapter 1
University Education and the Quest to Wonder
Chapter 2
Wandering and University Education: In Pursuit of Poiesis, Praxis, and Rhythm
Chapter 3
Whispering as studious and playful university education
Chapter 4
On utopianism and doctoral education
Chapter 5
Towards ethical pedagogical encounters between supervisors and students
Chapter 6
Doctoral Supervision and the Enactment of Democratic Citizenship Education
Chapter 7
Doctoral Education and the Enactment of Cosmopolitan Justice
Chapter 8
Doctoral Supervision and the Notion of Critique
Chapter 9
Doctoral Education as Profanation and Play
Chapter 10
A Personal Narrative on Doctoral Adventures
Chapter 11
On Questioning Reasoned and Democratic Universities: Towards an Ubuntu University
Chapter 12
On autonomouss, iterative, and restorative doctoral supervision: A glimpse into the future
Chapter 13
On Decolonised Doctoral Education
Afterword: A Personal Reflection on Conditioned Thought

About the author

Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Summary

This timely volume conceptualises and applies the philosophical notions of wonder, wander, and whisper, serving as evaluative paradigms for objective assessment of quality doctoral research work and supervision in South African higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Yusef Waghid, Yusef (Stellenbosch University Waghid, Waghid Yusef
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032713731
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271373-1
• No. of pages: 94
• Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Republic of South Africa, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher