- 134 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
This book brings together a discussion of educational philosophy, nihilism and humanity to rethink education in times of crisis, with a particular focus on teaching and learning in universities.
The book argues that an educational crisis manifests when the value of academic institutions come under attack, looking closely at how higher education practices have been devalued. The book is situated in the context of three intertwined crises; the coronavirus pandemic, economic decline resulting in poverty and unemployment, and the crisis of human migration. It questions what the role of education is, or ought to be, in times of crisis and how our humanity ought to be cultivated during such turbulent times.
This novel and timely text will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of educational philosophy, higher education and international education.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Education reconsidered during turbulent times
- 2 Education and the cultivation of humanity
- 3 Deepening of crises and their implications for human living: In defence of global justice
- 4 On the crisis of university education in South Africa: The explosion of online education and on the (im)potentiality of doctoral supervision
- 5 Can philosophical thinking enhance educational encounters?
- 6 Can a spiritual life impede an educational crisis?
- 7 Does a concept of community offer a way to counteract a crisis?
- 8 Revisiting democratic citizenship education as a riposte to an educational crisis
- 9 Against boredom: Cultivating a blissful academic space for happiness
- 10 Reconsidering ubuntu: Towards an ethic of human flourishing that is “human, all too human”
- CODA: Remote teaching during a time of crisis in higher education in South Africa
- In response to the CODA on remote teaching: On the decolonisation of higher education in South Africa
- Index