Higher Teaching and Learning for Alternative Futures

Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is Editor-in-Chief of South African Journal of Higher Education and Principal Editor of Citizenship Teaching and Learning. Faiq Waghid is Lecturer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa. His research interest includes the use of participatory action research towards improving teaching and learning practices, augmented through the use of educational technologies. Judith Terblanche is a chartered accountant and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is also a PhD student at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.Zayd Waghid is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Mowbray, Cape Town.He is the recipient of three teaching excellence awards at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and has published widely in the field of teacher education and social justice.

• Chapter 1. Cultivating praxis: On the convergence of our distinctive post-critical narratives (Who are we?).- Chapter 2. Higher education and post-structuralism: Moving beyond interpretation.- Chapter 3. The university as a space for intellectual pursuits and critique.- Chapter 4. The university and democratic reimagining.- Chapter 5. The university, power and social change towards a period of post-massification.- Chapter 6. The university and the presence of educational nihilism.- Chapter 7. The university, curriculum and social reality.- Chapter 8. The university and political pluralism.- Chapter 9. The university and the experience of risk.- Chapter 10. Reclaiming empowerment at the university: professors and students are the university.