Overview
- Presents a (re)constructed and deconstructed understanding of academic activism
- Explores how a philosophy of higher education can contribute to enhancing academic activism and social justice education
- Draws on South African case studies in support of conceptual and deconstructive analyses and discussion
Part of the book series: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives (DHEP, volume 5)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Academic activism and social justice education
- Academic activism
- Academic activism as a living philosophy
- Academic activism and subjectivity of the individual
- Academic activism as deconstruction
- Academic activism as a revolutionary action
- Academic activism as a pedagogy of courage
- Academic activism as postmodernism
- Agency of the Muselmann
- Feminist critique of university education
- Higher education in South Africa
- Muslim university as resistance and dissent
- Social justice education
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Nuraan Davids is a Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include democratic citizenship education; Islamic philosophy of education; and philosophy in higher in education. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies; an Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education and an Editorial Board Member of Ethics and Education. She is a CASBS fellow at Stanford University (2020 – 2021).
Yusef Waghid holds doctorates in education, policy, and philosophy from the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in South Africa respectively and is among Africa’s leading philosophers of education today. As a distinguished professor at Stellenbosch University he has been a prolific author with 380 publications to date of which forty-three are academic books and seventy-three invited contributions to books. His commitment to the advancement of doctoral education including having promoted thirty-one candidates to completion and examined seventy-eight doctorates culminated in having been honoured by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa in 2015 as a worthy recipient of the prestigious Education Research in Africa Award: Outstanding Mentor of Education Researchers. In recognition of his scholarly works and having published in many of the leading journals in his field, the National Research Foundation in South Africa rated him as an internationally acclaimed scholar who provides exemplary leadership in advancing philosophy of higher education in Africa. He was honoured with the editorships of two prominent academic journals, namely Citizenship, Teaching and Learning (since 2018), and South African Journal of Higher Education (since 2005) through which he meritoriously supports scholars to publish their seminal works. From 2020 to 2021, he collaborated with renowned international scholarson a leading UNESCO pioneered research project, Education for Flourishing and Flourishing in Education initiated by the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. His advancement of higher education in Africa is also acknowledged by the Council of Higher Education in South Africa of which he has been a board member since 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academic Activism in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A Living Philosophy for Social Justice
Authors: Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Series Title: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0340-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0339-6Published: 25 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0342-6Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0340-2Published: 24 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-2573
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2581
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 169
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights