Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Yusef Waghid -- Copyright page / Editor: Yusef Waghid -- Foreword / Emiliano Bosio -- List of Figures and Tables / Editor: Yusef Waghid -- Notes on Contributors / Editor: Yusef Waghid -- Introduction Understanding African Philosophy of Higher Education / Yusef Waghid -- Chapter 1 Towards an African Philosophy of Higher Education / Yusef Waghid -- Chapter 2 Repositioning African Philosophy of Higher Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Thokozani Mathebula -- Chapter 3 Pedagogy That Encapsulates Rhythmic Caring / Judith Terblanche -- Chapter 4 An Ubuntu Philosophy of Higher Education as Justice / Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu -- Chapter 5 The Potentiality of Cultivating a Culture of Mutuality in a Multicultural Society / Monica Zembere and Innocent Madenga -- Chapter 6 Equipping Aspiring Chartered Accountants as Responsible Leaders / Elton Pullen -- Chapter 7 African Philosophy of Higher Education for Human Formation and Civil Society Development / Lester Brian Shawa -- Chapter 8 Higher Education in Zimbabwe / Evelyn Chiyevo Garwe and Juliet Thondhlana -- Chapter 9 Broadening the Scope of the Discourse on Africanisation of Higher Education to Encompass Quality Assurance and Promotion / Amani T. Saidi and Sindisiwe P. Mbhele -- Chapter 10 Higher Education in Somalia / Ali A. Abdi and Abdiqani A. Farah -- Chapter 11 Reimagining Educational Technology (EdTech) through Ubuntu / Faiq Waghid and Zayd Waghid -- Chapter 12 African Philosophy with(out) Philosophers / Joseph Pardon Hungwe -- Chapter 13 A ‘Decolonial Turn’ in Higher Education / Philip Higgs -- Index / Editor: Yusef Waghid.

The central argument in this book revolves around the significance of an African philosophy of higher education. Such a philosophy is geared towards cultivating democratic iterations, co-belonging, and critique within human encounters. Together, these actions can enhance intellectual activism within and beyond the encounters. A philosophy of higher education is constituted by a philosophical act of reflexivity according to which ( how ), freedom (both autonomous and communal), cosmopolitanism (learning to live with differences and otherness), and caring with others ( ubuntu ) can be rhythmically practised. What makes an African philosophy of higher education distinctive and realisable is that practices ought to be based on iterations, co-belonging, and critique. If intellectual activism were not to become a major act of resistance on the basis of which educational, political, and societal dystopias can be undermined, such a philosophy of higher education would not have a real purpose. An African philosophy of higher education is an intellectually activist endeavour because of its concern to be oppositional to constraints in and about higher education. In conversation with such an understanding of this philosophy, contributors to this volume offer responses to why human freedom, cosmopolitanism, and caring with others ( ubuntu ) can be rhythmically enacted.

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