Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa

Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa
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Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611485998
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
286
Autor:
John Higgins
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

This book argues that the core content of academic freedom—the principle of supporting and
extending open intellectual enquiry—is essential to realizing the full public value of higher
education. John Higgins emphasizes the central role that the humanities, and the particular forms of
argument and analysis they embody, bring to this task.




How do we understand academic freedom today? Does it still have relevance in a global
reconfiguring of higher education in the interests of the economy, rather than the public
good? And locally, is academic freedom no more than an inconvenient ideal, paid lip service
to South Africa’s Constitution as an individual right, but neglected in institutional practice?

This book argues that the core content of academic freedom—the principle of supporting and
extending open intellectual enquiry—is essential to realizing the full public value of higher
education. John Higgins emphasizes the central role that the humanities, and the particular forms of
argument and analysis they embody, bring to this task.

Each chapter embodies the particular force of a critical literacy in action, one which brings
into play the combined force of historical inquiry, theoretical analysis, and precise attention
to the textual dynamics of all statement so as to challenge and confront the received ideas of
the day. These provocative analyses are complemented by probing interviews with three key
figures from the Critical Humanities: Terry Eagleton, who discusses the deforming effects of
managerialism in British universities; Edward W. Said, who argues for increased recognition of
the democratizing force of the humanities; and Jakes Gerwel, who presents some of the most
recent challenges for the realization of a humanist politics in South Africa.


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