Teaching, Friendship and Humanity

· Springer Nature
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This book extends liberal understandings in and about democratic citizenship education in relation to university pedagogy, more specifically higher teaching and learning. The authors’ argument is in defence of cultivating humanity through (higher) educational encounters on the basis of virtues that connect with the idea of love. Unlike romantic and erotic love, the book examines love in relation to educational encounters whereby humans or citizens can engage autonomously, deliberatively andresponsibly, yet lovingly. The rationale for focussing on the notion of philia (love) in educational encounters, the authors argue, is that doing so allows our current understandings of such encounters to be expanded beyond mere talk of reasonable engagements—autonomous action, deliberative iterations, and simple action—toward emotive enactments that could enhance human relations in educational encounters.

About the author

Nuraan Davids is a Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies,Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include democratic citizenship education; Islamic philosophy of education; and ethics in education. She is an Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education and an Editorial Board Member for both Ethics and Education and the Journal on Education in Muslim Societies. Yusef Waghid is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Yusef holds doctorates in the areas of Philosophy of Education (Western Cape, 1995), Education Policy Studies (2000), and Philosophy (Stellenbosch, 2001). To date, he has authored more than 350 research publications. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Higher Education and Principal Editor of the internationally acclaimed journal Citizenship Teaching and Learning.

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