Towards a Critical Re-Conceptualization of the Purpose of Higher Education: The Role of Ubuntu-Currere in Re-Imagining Teaching and Learning in South African Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Hlatshwayo, Mlamuli Nkosingphile; Shawa, Lester Brian
Titel	Towards a Critical Re-Conceptualization of the Purpose of Higher Education: The Role of Ubuntu-Currere in Re-Imagining Teaching and Learning in South African Higher Education
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 39 (2020) 1, S.26-38 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hlatshwayo, Mlamuli Nkosingphile)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2019.1670146
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Role of Education; Higher Education; Educational Change; Discourse Analysis; Politics of Education; Social Environment; Democracy; Cultural Pluralism; Neoliberalism; Indigenous Knowledge; Indigenous Populations; African Culture; National Curriculum; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsauftrag; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; Diskursanalyse; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Soziales Umfeld; Demokratie; Kulturpluralismus; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Sinti und Roma; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The 2015-2016 South African higher education students' movement proved historical for our country in bringing to our dinner tables: issues of higher education transformation and decolonisation; institutional culture(s); curriculum reform; the need to foreground and make inclusive assessment in education; the coloniality in our knowledge production, and more. Influenced by the emergence of the student movements and the critique they have brought to South African higher education, we bring to the fore the often silent critical reflections on the purposes of higher education in general, and in South Africa especially, as they relate to teaching and learning. We propose that the purposes of higher education in relation to teaching and learning ought to respond to (1) context, (2) democratic difference, and (3) cosmopolitan perspectives. We argue that discourses, phases and logics about South African higher education have tended to disregard and, at times, blur the context and differences as well as cosmopolitan perspectives. Using the notion of Ubuntu-Currere, we re-imagine how teaching and learning could respond to context, difference and cosmopolitanism with examples from the South African higher education experience. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01