Ubuntu and Buddhism in higher education : an ontological (re)thinking

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    • Robinson-Morris, David W.

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Ubuntu and Buddhism in higher education : an ontological (re)thinking

David W. Robinson-Morris

Routledge, 2020, c2019

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Ubuntu and Buddhism in higher education : an ontological rethinking

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"First issued in paperback 2020" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-204) and index

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Ubuntu and Buddhism in Higher Education theorizes the equal privileging of ontology and epistemology towards a balanced focus on 'being-becoming' and knowledge acquisition within the field of higher education. In response to the shift in higher education's aims and purposes beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, this book reconsiders higher education and Western subjectivity through southern African (Ubuntu) and Eastern (Buddhist) onto-epistemologies. By mapping these other-than-West ontological viewpoints onto the discourse surrounding higher education, this volume presents a vision of colleges and universities as transformational institutions promoting our shared connection to the human and non-human world, and deepens our understanding of what it means to be a human being.

Table of Contents

I. CHAPTER ONE: TURNING REALITY ON ITS HEAD, (RE)IMAGINING A NEW WAY II. CHAPTER TWO: UBUNTU: THE GREAT GIFT OF AFRICA III. CHAPTER THREE: BUDDHISM: AN ENGAGEMENT WITH AND IN THE WORLD IV. CHAPTER FOUR: A MAP NOT A TRACING: (re)THINKING AS (NON)METHOD V. CHAPTER FIVE: THE RECONCEPTUALIZED BEING-HOLON VI. CHAPTER 6: LET LEARN AND LET BE: (RE)THINKING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AS ONTO-EPISTEMOLOGICAL WOMBS OF BEING-BECOMING VII. CHAPTER 7: EDUCATING FOR A DEEPER HUMANITY: A NEW PLATEAU VII. REFERENCES

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