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Book Synopsis Dancing with Doctoral Encounters by : Yusef Waghid
Download or read book Dancing with Doctoral Encounters written by Yusef Waghid and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an exposition of the author?s professional encounters with doctoral candidates. In reflecting upon his supervision of these candidates ? individuals, each with their own ideas - the author likened these unique relationships with a dance.
Book Synopsis Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage by : Nuraan Davids
Download or read book Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage written by Nuraan Davids and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage is premised on an argument that if higher education is to remain responsive to a public good, then teaching and learning must be in a perpetual state of reflection and change. It argues in defence of teaching and learning as constitutive of a pedagogic pilgrimage and draws on a range of scholars and theories to explore concepts such as transcendental journeys, belief, hope and imagination. The main objective of the book is to show how teaching and learning ought to be reconsidered in relation to that which lies beyond the parameters of the encounters, as well as that which is intrinsic to the encounters. This book gives shape to rituals and routines of engagement and debate, before extending the limitations in deliberative pedagogic encounters to offer desirable outcomes in which both student and teacher can practice a spiritual take on teaching and learning along a continuum of ongoing action. Themes explored in the chapters include the following: Faith and deliberative encounters Post-human ethics of care in teaching and learning Diffracted teaching and learning This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, and teaching and learning in the philosophy of education. It will also appeal to school and university educators, policymakers and prospective teachers.
Book Synopsis Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education by : Yusef Waghid
Download or read book Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education written by Yusef Waghid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a re-imagined view of caring in higher education. The author proposes an argument of rhythmic caring, whereby teachers hold back or release their judgments in such a way that students’ judgments are influenced accordingly. In doing so, the author argues that rhythmic caring encourages students to become more willing and confident in articulating their understandings, judgments and opinions, rather than being prematurely judged and prevented from re-articulating themselves. Thus, rhythmic caring can engender a different understanding of higher education: one that is connected to the cultivation of values such as autonomy, justice, empathy, mutual respect and Ubuntu (human dignity and interdependence). This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of caring within education, as well as Ubuntu caring through the African context.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Adventures in African Higher Education by : Yusef Waghid
Download or read book Philosophical Adventures in African Higher Education written by Yusef Waghid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal volume delves into some of the doctoral research and pedagogical experiences within an African higher education context, making a case for the transformative potential of education and the integration of African indigenous philosophies into global educational practices. Through a collection of vivid narratives, the book situates philosophy of higher education by embodying the doctoral researcher and their initiation into academic life, revealing how doctoral pursuits in African higher education are not simply academic endeavours but deeply philosophical adventures that challenge, critique, and reimagine the role of education in society. Chapters advocate for a dynamic educational system that, rooted in African philosophies, nurtures democratic citizenship, embraces critical engagement, and fosters social justice. A call to action for researchers, students, and policy makers alike to view doctoral research as a powerful catalyst for change, the book offers fresh perspectives on addressing the continent's unique challenges, contributing to a more just and inclusive world. Ultimately considering the potential of academic research to shape the future of societies, both within Africa and globally, the book will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students involved with the philosophy of education, higher education, and citizenship education, as well as these areas in African contexts specifically.
Book Synopsis Educational Leadership in Becoming by : Nuraan Davids
Download or read book Educational Leadership in Becoming written by Nuraan Davids and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational Leadership in Becoming reconsiders educational leadership in its current forms, and presents a more plausible form of educational leadership to contend with the complexities currently found in universities and schools. Much of the literature in vogue concerning educational leadership ranges from transactional to transformative representations of the concept in relation to educational management and policy, curriculum inquiry and pedagogical action. The primary aim of this book is to revisit some of the dominant understandings of educational leadership and to offer an extended view of the practice along the lines of potentiality and becoming. Davids and Waghid argue that all current forms of educational leadership are insufficient to enact responsible human action, particularly when it comes to addressing the combined issues of globalisation and equitable redress and transformation, whether in relation to leading schools or universities. The primary objective of the book is to draw on the Agambian notion of becoming in order to show that an educational leadership in becoming is better placed to not only address the myriad challenges besetting education, but to also enhance the potential of leadership in action. The book addresses an international audience by analysing conceptions of transformative leadership and should be read by anyone who is interested in education and educational leadership, as well as the impact of neoliberal agendas on education and society. It should also appeal to those interested in the philosophy of education.
Book Synopsis Philosophy and Education as Action by : Yusef Waghid
Download or read book Philosophy and Education as Action written by Yusef Waghid and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid teach philosophy of education to students, who are completing a post-graduate certificate in education (PGCE) in order to qualify as teachers. They make the argument that philosophy and education are intertwined as action concepts with the potential to affect teacher education practices. Philosophy and Education as Action: Implications for Teacher Education endeavors to clarify pertinent philosophical concepts in education and look at how these concepts impact teaching, learning, and management as classroom practices. Through the philosophical concepts of epistêmê (knowledge), phronesis (practical reasoning), praxis (productive action), paideia (education), parhessia (free speech), technê (craft or art), dialogos (deliberative engagement), philia (love and friendship), kosmopolitis (cosmopolitanism), and dinamis (potentiality), students can come to speech through a philosophical discourse situated in educational studies.
Book Synopsis Postgraduate Study in South Africa by : Liezel Frick
Download or read book Postgraduate Study in South Africa written by Liezel Frick and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores concerns about the lack of higher education transformation around issues of equity, curriculum reform, language and race, and how students navigate higher education complexities. Students' self-reflective abilities, creativity and pragmatic approaches to surviving and succeeding are indicators that postgraduate student success is as much internally as externally determined. Each chapter speaks from a uniquely South African perspective. The editors have tried to remain true to the voice of each contributor, while simultaneously providing a coherent body of scholarly work.
Book Synopsis Being a Systems Psychodynamic Scholar by : Frans Cilliers
Download or read book Being a Systems Psychodynamic Scholar written by Frans Cilliers and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift has been compiled by Sanchen Henning in honour of the work of Professor Frans Cilliers. On behalf of colleagues and friends in South Africa and abroad, she illustrates their appreciation and respect for his role as scholar in Systems Psychodynamics. He produced various pioneering research projects in Organisational Psychology as his field of study, through the Systems Psychodynamic lens. A specific feature and contribution of the book is the application of Systems Psychodynamics to organisational matters and leadership consulting as well as to the lived experiences of postgraduate students and academics. The chapters include themes relevant on individual, group and organisational levels and are intended to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field.
Book Synopsis Engaging Higher Education Curricula by : Elmarie Costandius
Download or read book Engaging Higher Education Curricula written by Elmarie Costandius and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The authors aim to stimulate discussion about the nature and purposes of critical citizenship education in higher education. Rather than promoting a blueprint for change, the authors thoughtfully consider a generative research agenda for transformative higher education and focus on how this orientation in higher education plays out on the ground. This book, together with its Coda that takes the conversation beyond critical citizenship education to include responsible citizenship, provides compelling reasons and sound suggestions for a way forward.
Book Synopsis Chronicles on African Philosophy of Higher Education by :
Download or read book Chronicles on African Philosophy of Higher Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Towards an Ubuntu University by : Yusef Waghid
Download or read book Towards an Ubuntu University written by Yusef Waghid and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the argument to reconsider the idea of a university in light of the African ethic of ubuntu; literally, human dignity and interdependence. The book discusses, through the context of higher education discourse of philosophy and comparative education, how global universities have evolved into higher educational institutions concerned with knowledge (re)production for various end purposes that range from individual autonomy, to public accountability, to serving the interests of the economy and markets. The question can legitimately be asked: Is an ubuntu university different from an entrepreneurial university, thinking university, and ecological university? While these different understandings of a university accentuate both the epistemological and moral imperatives in relation to itself and the societies in which they manifest, it is through the ubuntu university that emotivism in the forms of dignity and humaneness will enhance a university’s capacity for autonomy, responsibility, and criticality. This book would be of academic interest to university educators and students in philosophy of education, comparative education, and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Dance and British Literature: An Intermedial Encounter by : Maria Marcsek-Fuchs
Download or read book Dance and British Literature: An Intermedial Encounter written by Maria Marcsek-Fuchs and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance and literature seem to have much in common. Both are part of a culture, represent a culture, and subvert a culture. Yet at the same time, they appear to be medial antagonists: one is kinetic and multimedial, the other (often) verbal and seemingly mono-medial. What happens, however, when both meet; when movement is integrated into the literary world or even replaces verbal communication? Dance is artistic and popular, traditional and innovative, bodily and ephemeral. It holds cultural and kinetic information in a nutshell and thus brings movement and cultural history into a text. Shakespeare’s plays, Restoration comedy, 19th century caricature, popular and elitist theatre, all make use of dance as special means of signification. Thus, this study explores dance in British literature from Shakespeare to Yeats, and illustrates the many ways in which these two forms of artistic expression can enter into various kinds of intermedial encounters and cultural alliances.
Book Synopsis Through the Bone and Marrow by : Laura Hellsten
Download or read book Through the Bone and Marrow written by Laura Hellsten and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a conversation starter. The author is re-imagining the theological landscape of historical practices of dance in order to open up a space where further explorations can be made. This is done in a two step manner. First, the book uncovers the restrictions of earlier research on the topic of dance in and around churches. In the second step, Hellsten suggests a practice for how historical sources can be imagined in a new frame. Opening up a new field of previously neglected and much needed historical studies on Dance in the Christian churches of the Latin West this study aims at questioning old paradigms and opening new vistas rather than reinterpreting concrete liturgical manuscripts or scrutinizing all the details of the historical sources presented.
Book Synopsis Cultural Dance in Australia by : Jeanette Mollenhauer
Download or read book Cultural Dance in Australia written by Jeanette Mollenhauer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent performers, historiographies and archives, and the relative positionings of cultural and Western theatrical dance genres. The book offers a decolonized appraisal of dance in Australia, critiquing past and present praxes and offering suggestions for the future. Overall, it underscores the highly variegated nature of the Australian dance landscape and advocates for greater recognition of amateur community dance practices. Cultural Dance in Australia makes a substantial contribution to the catalogue of work about immigrants and cultural dance styles that continue to be preserved in Australia. This book will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism.
Book Synopsis Dance as Third Space by : Heike Walz
Download or read book Dance as Third Space written by Heike Walz and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance plays an important role in many religious traditions, in rites of passage, processions, healing rituals or festivals. But it is also controversial, especially in Christianity. Colonial European Christian discourses tend to separate dance from religion(s) and spirituality. This volume explores dance as "Third Space", following Homi Bhabha's postcolonial metaphor. The "Inter-Dance approach" combines interdisciplinary theoretical considerations with case studies. International experts examine dance controversies and discourses from the early church to World Christianity, as well as in Hasidic Judaism, Greek mysteries, Islamic Sufism, West African Togolese religions, and Afro-Brazilian Umbanda. Christian dance theologies are unfolded and the boundary-crossing potential of dance in interreligious and intercultural encounters is explored. The volume breaks new ground in how dance as ephemeral performative art, embodied thought and gendered discourse can transform studies of religion.
Book Synopsis The Dance of Learning by : Jeannette Regan
Download or read book The Dance of Learning written by Jeannette Regan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the spark that lights the fire of learning between learner and teacher? This study uses action research and action learning to deepen the author's understanding and praxis.
Book Synopsis Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads by : Ruth F. Davis
Download or read book Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads written by Ruth F. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually, the chapters offer detailed ethnographic and historiographic studies of music’s multifaceted roles in such interactions. From collaborations between Moroccan migrant and Spanish Muslim convert musicians in Granada, to the incorporation of West African sonorities and Hasidic melodies in the musical liturgy of Abu Ghosh Abbey, Jerusalem, these communities sing, play, dance, listen, and record their diverse experiences of encounter at the Mediterranean crossroads.
