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African Higher Education in the 21st Century

Epistemological, Ontological and Ethical Perspectives
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-44209-2 (ISBN)
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African Higher Education in the 21st Century explores the philosophical dimension of higher education systems in Africa by analysing its ontological, epistemological and ethical foundations.
How can African philosophy of education contribute to contemporary debates in the context of complexities, dilemmas and uncertainties in African higher education? The capacity for self-reflection, self-evaluation and self-criticism enables African philosophy of higher education to examine and re-examine itself in the context of current issues in African higher education. The reflective capacity is in line with the Socratic dictum ‘know thy self.’ African Higher Education in the 21st Century: Epistemological, Ontological and Ethical Perspectives responds to the demands for reflection and self-knowledge by drawing from ontology, epistemology and ethics in an attempt to address issues that affect African higher education as they connect with the past, present and future.

Ephraim T. Gwaravanda, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Great Zimbabwe University. He has published articles in Educational Review, Journal of Black Studies and Alternation. His research interests are in Epistemology, African Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. Amasa P. Ndofirepi, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education and Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is co-editor of the two-volume book Knowledge and Change in African Universities (Sense, 2017). He also co-edited Inclusion and Social Justice: Theory and Practice in African Higher Education (Brill | Sense, 2020).

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors



1 Contextualising African Higher Education Philosophical Debates

 Ephraim T. Gwaravanda and Amasa P. Ndofirepi

2 Does the African University Exist? Perverse and Necessary Dialogical Conditions

 Amasa P. Ndofirepi and Ephraim T. Gwaravanda

3 The Place of an African Ontology-Based Environmental Thinking in Africa’s Higher Education

 Munamato Chemhuru

4 Epistemological Issues in African Higher Education

 Kai Horsthemke

5 Towards Knowledge Pluriversality in African Universities

 Ephraim T. Gwaravanda and Amasa P. Ndofirepi

6 Universities in Africa and the Quest for Global Epistemic Justice

 Dennis Masaka

7 Boaventura De Sousa Santos’ Epistemologies of the South: The Case of Universities in Africa

 Amasa P. Ndofirepi and Ephraim T. Gwaravanda

8 Decolonisation Debates in African Higher Education

 Pascah Mungwini

9 An African Theory of the Point of Higher Education: Communion as an Alternative to Autonomy, Truth, and Citizenship

 Thaddeus Metz

10 Well-Being and Land Reform: Recasting the Place of African Moral Theory in University Education

 Erasmus Masitera

11 Multicultural Philosophy as Social Justice and the University in Africa

 Simon Nenji and Amasa P. Ndofirepi

12 Revisiting the Politics of Higher Education at African Universities in the 21st Century

 Bheki R. Mngomezulu

13 Theorising Critical Citizenship in Two Zimbabwean Teachers Colleges Using Sen’s Instrumental Freedoms

 Tendai Marovah



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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives ; 7
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 460 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 90-04-44209-X / 900444209X
ISBN-13 978-90-04-44209-2 / 9789004442092
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