The Thinking University Expanded

On Profanation, Play and Education

Yusef Waghid, Nuraan Davids

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English

Routledge
30 June 2021

Philosophy & theory of education; Educational strategies & policy; Universities; Teaching skills & techniques

Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education

The Thinking University Expanded considers how the university can be extended and developed to an institution of play that becomes a gateway to new compositions and enactments of opportunities and happiness for university academics and students alike. A university of and in continuous play can shape the public sphere in ways that reimagine both the epistemological and political, and the metaphysical and the ethical.

Without abandoning the university’s emphasis on thinking, the book examines the prospects of opening the university to ‘a new, possible use’. The singular outcomes-based lens of seeing higher education distorts the humane and ethical nuance of what a university can potentially do and aspire towards. For this reason, the book intends to find a new use for the idea of a university – one that is responsible and responsive in both its pursuit of the truth and being open to different kinds of truth, as made manifest in diverse contexts and life-worlds.

This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the field of higher education.

By: Yusef Waghid, Nuraan Davids
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 167g
ISBN: 9781032083483
ISBN 10: 1032083484
Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 30 June 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The thinking university reconsidered. 2. On searching for truth and the justification for telling the truth. 3. Student alienation and the democratic mission of a university re-examined. 4. On some of the limitations of citizenship and the thinking university. 5. Towards a university beyond critique. 6. On a university without condition. 7. Against the exclusive entrepreneurial university. 8. Al-Rumi and the notion of a university beyond critique. 9. An argument in defence of a playful university. 10. On a university in perpetual play

Yusef Waghid reads Philosophy of Education at Stellenbosch University. He is the editor-in-chief of South African Journal of Higher Education and principal editor of Citizenship Teaching and Learning, South Africa. Nuraan Davids is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.