African higher education in the 21st century [electronic resource] : epistemological, ontological and ethical perspectives / edited by Ephraim T. Gwaravanda and Amasa P. Ndofirepi.
"How can African philosophy of education contribute to contemporary debates in the context of complexities, dilemmas and uncertainties in African higher education? The capacity for self-reflection, self-evaluation and self-criticism enables African philosophy of higher education to examine and re-ex...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill | Sense,
2021.
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| Series: | African higher education: developments and perspectives,
volume 7 |
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African Higher Education in the 21st Century: Epistemological, Ontological and Ethical Perspectives |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Contextualising African higher education philosophical debates
- Does the African university exist? Perverse and necessary dialogical conditions
- The place of an African ontology based environmental thinking in Africa's higher education
- Epistemological issues in African higher education
- Towards knowledge pluriversality in African universities
- Universities in Africa and the quest for global epistemic justice
- Boaventura De Sousa Santos' epistemologies of the South: The case of universities in Africa
- Decolonisation debates in African higher education
- An African theory of the point of higher education: Communion as an alternative to autonomy, truth, and citizenship
- Well-being and land reform: Recasting the place of African moral theory in university education
- Multicultural philosophy as social justice and the university in Africa
- Revisiting the politics of higher education at African universities in the 21st century
- Theorising critical citizenship in two Zimbabwean teachers colleges
- Using Sen's instrumental freedoms.