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-examine itself in the context of current issues in African higher education. The reflective capacity is in line with the Socratic dictum ‘know thy self.’ African Higher Education in the 21st Century: Epistemological, Ontological and Ethical Perspectives responds to the demands for reflection and self-knowledge by drawing from ontology, epistemology and ethics in an attempt to address issues that affect African higher education as they connect with the past, present and future.
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African Higher Education in the 21st Century explores the philosophical dimension of higher education systems in Africa by analysing its ontological, epistemological and ethical foundations.
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Contextualising African Higher Education Philosophical Debates  Ephraim T. Gwaravanda and Amasa P. Ndofirepi 2 Does the African University Exist? Perverse and Necessary Dialogical Conditions  Amasa P. Ndofirepi and Ephraim T. Gwaravanda 3 The Place of an African Ontology-Based Environmental Thinking in Africa’s Higher Education  Munamato Chemhuru 4 Epistemological Issues in African Higher Education  Kai Horsthemke 5 Towards Knowledge Pluriversality in African Universities  Ephraim T. Gwaravanda and Amasa P. Ndofirepi 6 Universities in Africa and the Quest for Global Epistemic Justice  Dennis Masaka 7 Boaventura De Sousa Santos’ Epistemologies of the South: The Case of Universities in Africa  Amasa P. Ndofirepi and Ephraim T. Gwaravanda 8 Decolonisation Debates in African Higher Education  Pascah Mungwini 9 An African Theory of the Point of Higher Education: Communion as an Alternative to Autonomy, Truth, and Citizenship  Thaddeus Metz 10 Well-Being and Land Reform: Recasting the Place of African Moral Theory in University Education  Erasmus Masitera 11 Multicultural Philosophy as Social Justice and the University in Africa  Simon Nenji and Amasa P. Ndofirepi 12 Revisiting the Politics of Higher Education at African Universities in the 21st Century  Bheki R. Mngomezulu 13 Theorising Critical Citizenship in Two Zimbabwean Teachers Colleges Using Sen’s Instrumental Freedoms  Tendai Marovah Index
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ISBN
9789004442092
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
224

Biografisk notat

Ephraim T. Gwaravanda, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Great Zimbabwe University. He has published articles in Educational Review, Journal of Black Studies and Alternation. His research interests are in Epistemology, African Philosophy and Philosophy of Law.
Amasa P. Ndofirepi, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education and Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is co-editor of the two-volume book Knowledge and Change in African Universities (Sense, 2017). He also co-edited Inclusion and Social Justice: Theory and Practice in African Higher Education (Brill | Sense, 2020).