Overview

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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Author:   Yusef Waghid (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032713731

ISBN 10:   1032713739
Pages:   94
Publication Date:   30 November 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 University Education and the Quest to Wonder Chapter 2 Wandering and University Education: In Pursuit of Poiesis, Praxis, and Rhythm Chapter 3 Whispering as studious and playful university education Chapter 4 On utopianism and doctoral education Chapter 5 Towards ethical pedagogical encounters between supervisors and students Chapter 6 Doctoral Supervision and the Enactment of Democratic Citizenship Education Chapter 7 Doctoral Education and the Enactment of Cosmopolitan Justice Chapter 8 Doctoral Supervision and the Notion of Critique Chapter 9 Doctoral Education as Profanation and Play Chapter 10 A Personal Narrative on Doctoral Adventures Chapter 11 On Questioning Reasoned and Democratic Universities: Towards an Ubuntu University Chapter 12 On autonomouss, iterative, and restorative doctoral supervision: A glimpse into the future Chapter 13 On Decolonised Doctoral Education Afterword: A Personal Reflection on Conditioned Thought

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Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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