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Teacher Education and "Politics of Humanity"
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Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Since the demise of apartheid education, the development of policy in relation to teacher education in South Africa has undergone major adjustments. By far the most poignant conceptual and pragmatic change that teacher education has been subjected to points towards the cultivation of teachers who can enact their professions as democratic citizens.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
On Cavellian Scepticism and Postgraduate Student Supervision
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Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
In this essay I offer an imaginary of postgraduate student supervision focusing on sceptical encounters with the other. Drawing on the seminal thoughts of Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell (1997), particularly on his ideas on "living with scepticism", I argue that postgraduate student supervision ought to be an encounter framed by…
Descriptors: Supervision, Students, Supervisors, Graduate Study
Beyond the University of Racial Diversity: Some Remarks on Race, Diversity, (Dis)Advantage and Affirmative Action
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Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The compelling essays in this issue of the journal take on the often contentious and complex issue of racial affirmative action. I do not wish to repeat the arguments authors offer either in defence or against student admissions to a university on the grounds of race, (dis)advantage, class, gender, and so on. Rather, I wish to respond to a…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Student Diversity
Re-Imagining Higher Education in South Africa: On Critical Democratic Education
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Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
At the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA, 30 April to 4 May), the theme of re-imagining public education arose once again with the most compelling presentation from leading scholars in the field concerned with counter-hegemonic politics and democratic change. The session entitled "Re-imaging public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Democracy, Foreign Countries
On the Limits of Cosmopolitanism and a "Curriculum of Refuge"
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Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
In a recent essay entitled "Ex and the City": on cosmopolitanism, community and the "curriculum of refuge", Molly Quinn (2010) introduces her readers to a poetic exploration of cosmopolitanism and curriculum change. She begins and inconclusively ends her essay with poetic language and affirmation of cosmopolitan justice through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Moral Values, Ethical Instruction
Education, Performance and a Cosmopolitan Imaginary: Towards Enhanced Democratic Reflexivity in South African Education
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Waghid, Y. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
This article explores the question of the purpose of education within the context of performance and cosmopolitanism in South Africa. The publication of Jean-Francois Lyotard's classic text, The postmodern condition of knowledge in 1984 spawned much debate and controversy about postmodern framings for education, the most significant of which have…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Postmodernism, Foreign Countries, Sexuality