Cultivating praxis: on the convergence of our distinctive post-critical narratives (who are we?) -- Higher education and poststructuralism: moving beyond interpretation -- The university as a space for intellectual pursuits and critique -- The university and democratic reimagining -- The university, power and social change towards a period of post-massification -- The university and the presence of educational Nihilism -- The university, curriculum, and social reality -- The university and political pluralism -- The university and the experience of risk -- Reclaiming empowerment at the university: professors and students are the university -- Coda: higher education under reconsideration - conversations about critical praxis.
Summary:
This book analyses the narratives of four academics who consider themselves post-structuralist. Grounded in the work of major thinkers in post-structuralism, these narratives reflect on higher education as a community of scholars without community. The authors highlight what specifically motivates their pedagogical affirmations and orientations, analyse why they are concerned with social justice education, and what they envisage the alternative futures of higher education to be - that is, futures in which discrimination, oppression, violence and inequality are waning or have been eradicated. Through their own narratives, the authors tackle the educational matter of poststructuralist human encounters and expand upon the notion of social justice education. In doing so, they argue for higher education on the African continent as an alternative discourse that can be responsive to political, societal and environmental dystopias.
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