Academic activism in higher education : a living philosophy for social justice

Academic activism in higher education : a living philosophy for social justice / Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid.

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 highe...

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Main Authors: Davids, Nuraan, 1970- (Author), Waghid, Yusef (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Series:Debating higher education ; 5.
Subjects:
Critical pedagogy > South Africa.
Social justice and education > South Africa.
Education, Higher > South Africa.
Critical pedagogy
Education, Higher
Social justice and education
Pedagogia crítica.
Educació superior.
Justícia social.
South Africa
República de Sud-àfrica.
Llibres electrònics.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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