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• Chinese philosophy and education: Philosophy of education in classical Confucianism
• Buddhism and education: Right speech for freedom from suffering
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• Post-structuralism and education: Anti-foundationalism and the critique of the philosophy of the subject
Philip Higgs is Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow in the College of Education at the University of South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation rated researcher and his academic interests focus on Philosophy of Education, and the transformation of higher education. His most recent book publications, co-authored with Jane Smith, include Rethinking Truth 2nd edition (Juta, 2006), Rethinking our World 4th edition (Juta, 2015), and Philosophy of Education Today: An Introduction (Juta, 2015).
Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of African philosophy of education reconsidered: On being human (London: Routledge, 2014); Pedagogy out of bounds: Untamed variations of democratic education (Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers, 2014); and co-author
(with Nuraan Davids) of Educational Leadership-in-Becoming: On the Potential of Leadership in Action (London: Routledge, 2016); and (with Faiq Waghid & Zayd Waghid) Educational Technology and Pedagogic Encounters: Democratic Education in Potentiality (Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers, 2016
SUITABLE FOR
Post graduate students and subject specialists in Education
Rethinking our World
P HIGGS & J SMITH
• Critical rationalism
• Critical theory
• Existentialism •
• Phenomenology •
• Hermeneutics
The authors outline the major figures and basic principles of each philosophy, and then analyse the type of thinking each approach encourages.
Rethinking Our World challenges the reader to look critically and creatively at many of society’s traditional beliefs. The following major philosophies are covered on an introductory and interactive level:
• Logical empiricism and empiricism
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Systems theory Postmodernism
Feminism
African philosophy
Ken Wilber’s Holon theory
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CONTENTS
• Thinking clearly and learning from • experience: The beginning of our new • world •
What of an African world? Can we change our world? Rethinking a woman’s world Who in the world am I?
Is there a world that speaks to us? Where in the world are we going?
• Asking questions: challenging what the world tells us
• How in the world can we give our lives meaning?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Philip Higgs is an Emeritus Professor and Research Fellow in the Department of Education Studies at the University of South Africa.
JUTA EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
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