Full Description
This timely volume conceptualises and applies the philosophical notions of wonder, wander, and whisper, serving as evaluative paradigms for objective assessment of quality doctoral research work and supervision in South African higher education.
Written by one of the foremost academics in the field, the book combines the normative philosophical, educational, and moral notions of wonder, wander, and whisper with academic life and studies, focusing on doctoral work and supervision not just as cognitive or scientific processes, but also as existential, ethical, and political shaping of the self. By reflecting on three decades of doctoral supervision, the author gives an account of how his students have been initiated into moral discourses of democratic citizenship education and the intellectual adventures they have embarked upon through scholarly texts. The book also presents itself as a decolonial venture that repositions and resituates doctoral education in resistance to the hegemony of colonisation, inhumanity, inequality, unfreedom, and injustice in Southern Africa.
Ultimately arguing for the relevance of wonder, wander, and whisper in academic culture, the book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and postgraduates in the fields of higher education, philosophy of education, and sociology of education as well as African education and doctoral studies more broadly.
Contents
Chapter 1
University Education and the Quest to Wonder
Chapter 2
Wandering and University Education: In Pursuit of Poiesis, Praxis, and Rhythm
Chapter 3
Whispering as studious and playful university education
Chapter 4
On utopianism and doctoral education
Chapter 5
Towards ethical pedagogical encounters between supervisors and students
Chapter 6
Doctoral Supervision and the Enactment of Democratic Citizenship Education
Chapter 7
Doctoral Education and the Enactment of Cosmopolitan Justice
Chapter 8
Doctoral Supervision and the Notion of Critique
Chapter 9
Doctoral Education as Profanation and Play
Chapter 10
A Personal Narrative on Doctoral Adventures
Chapter 11
On Questioning Reasoned and Democratic Universities: Towards an Ubuntu University
Chapter 12
On autonomouss, iterative, and restorative doctoral supervision: A glimpse into the future
Chapter 13
On Decolonised Doctoral Education
Afterword: A Personal Reflection on Conditioned Thought
