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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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Curiosity as "Ubuntu" Justice in Higher Education
Nuraan Davids; Yusef Waghid
Higher Education Research and Development, v43 n3 p673-687 2024
Students, through teaching and learning, must reflect on what they do not know. It is only when they recognise what they know, and what they do not, that they will awaken to their own curiosity. The more they can open themselves to others and their epistemologies, the deeper their own self-reflection in relation to others. In this way, engendering curiosity opens students to the possibilities of other kinds of identities, thoughts, and actions, and hence, the value of all forms of knowledge. This article considers, firstly, the importance of deliberative encounters as opening opportunities for engendering curiosity in others' traditions; secondly, for co-creating new knowledge in the interests of invoking transformative learning and action towards issues of common concern. And thirdly, by bringing into conversation democratisation and decolonisation, an argument is made for the cultivation of an "ubuntu" justice, which is not only concerned with recognising the Other, but is intent upon forgiveness and reconciliation.
Descriptors: African Culture, Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Decolonization, Justice, Conflict Resolution, Democracy, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Blacks, Race, Student Attitudes, Enrollment Trends, Access to Education, College Students, Whites, Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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