Philosophical, Educational, and Moral Openings in Doctoral Pursuits and Supervision
Promoting the Values of Wonder, Wander, and Whisper in African Higher Education
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Philosophical, Educational, and Moral Openings in Doctoral Pursuits and Supervision
Promoting the Values of Wonder, Wander, and Whisper in African Higher Education
About this book
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.
Written by one of the foremost academics in the field, the book combines the normative philosophical, educational, and moral notions of wonder, wander, and whisper with academic life and studies, focusing on doctoral work and supervision not just as cognitive or scientific processes, but also as existential, ethical, and political shaping of the self. By reflecting on three decades of doctoral supervision, the author gives an account of how his students have been initiated into moral discourses of democratic citizenship education and the intellectual adventures they have embarked upon through scholarly texts. The book also presents itself as a decolonial venture that repositions and resituates doctoral education in resistance to the hegemony of colonisation, inhumanity, inequality, unfreedom, and injustice in Southern Africa.
Ultimately arguing for the relevance of wonder, wander, and whisper in academic culture, the book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and postgraduates in the fields of higher education, philosophy of education, and sociology of education as well as African education and doctoral studies more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 University education and the quest to wonder
- 2 Wandering and university education: in pursuit of poiesis, praxis, and rhythm
- 3 Whispering as studious and playful university education
- 4 On utopianism and doctoral education
- 5 Towards ethical pedagogical encounters between supervisors and students
- 6 Doctoral supervision and the enactment of democratic citizenship education
- 7 Doctoral education and the enactment of cosmopolitan justice
- 8 Doctoral supervision and the notion of critique
- 9 Doctoral education as profanation and play
- 10 A personal narrative on doctoral adventures
- 11 On questioning reasoned and democratic universities: towards an ubuntu university
- 12 On autonomous, iterative, and restorative doctoral supervision: a glimpse into the future
- 13 On decolonised doctoral education
- Afterword: A personal reflection on conditioned thought
- Index