Overview
- Encourages the promotion of democratic patriotism in universities
- Argues that non-violence and tolerance should be manifested through the actions of universities
- Promotes citizenship and human rights education to address on-campus violence
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the role of the university in upholding democratic values for societal change. The chapters advocate for the moral virtue of democratic patriotism: the editors and contributors argue that universities, as institutions of higher learning, can encourage the creation of critical and patriotic citizens. The book suggests that non-violence, tolerance, and peaceful co-existence ought to manifest through pedagogical university actions on the basis of educators’ desire to cultivate reflectiveness, criticality, and deliberative inquiry in and through their academic programmes. In a way, universities can respond more positively to the violence on our campuses and in society if public and controversial issues were to be addressed through an education for democratic citizenship and human rights.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nuraan Davids is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include democratic citizenship education; Islamic philosophy of education; and philosophy of higher education. Recent books include: The Thinking University Expanded: On Profanation, Play and Education (2020, with Y. Waghid); Democratic Education and Muslim Philosophy: Interfacing Muslim and communitarian thought (2020, with Y. Waghid); Universities, pedagogical encounters, openness, and free speech: Reconfiguring democratic education (2019, with Y. Waghid).
Yusef Waghid is distinguished professor of philosophy of education at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is the co-author of the following books: Teaching, Friendship & Humanity (with Nuraan Davids, Springer, 2020); Teachers Matter: Educational Philosophy and Authentic Learning (with Nuraan Davids, Lexington Publishers, 2020); and Cosmopolitan Education and Inclusion: The Self and Others in Deliberation (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020 with Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu, Judith Terblanche, Faiq Waghid & Zayd Waghid).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: University Education, Controversy and Democratic Citizenship
Editors: Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56985-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56984-6Published: 17 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56987-7Published: 17 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56985-3Published: 16 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Philosophy of Education, Education Policy