A university without ruins : some reflections on possibilities and particularities of an African university
| dc.contributor.author | Waghid, Y. | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-07T13:57:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-07T13:57:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Waghid, Y. 2017. A university without ruins : some reflections on possibilities and particularities of an African university. South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(3):1-5, doi:10.20853/31-3-1337. | en_ZA |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | Ron Barnett’s (2016) Understanding the university announces that 'the university is a task without end … [and] since the university is always on the move, always moving in its spaces – economic, social, political, cultural, institutional and so on – its possibilities will always be moving on' (Barnett 2016, 9). I concur with Barnett’s cogent analytical take on the contemporary university, and draws on his three-pronged analysis, namely that a university is an institution and an idea; it is an institution in the present with future possibilities; and that it embodies a set of particulars and universals. The particulars and universals want to offer, firstly, a defence of a university as a democratic institution. Secondly, in line with Jacques Derrida’s (2004) novel thoughts on a contemporary university, I make a case for a university as a responsible institution-in-becoming within an African context, thereby bringing into contestation the notion that a university can ever be ‘in ruins’. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe/article/view/1337 | |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | 5 pages | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Waghid, Y. 2017. A university without ruins : some reflections on possibilities and particularities of an African university. South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(3):1-5, doi:10.20853/31-3-1337 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1753-5913 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | doi:10.20853/31-3-1337 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/105528 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | HESA | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Author retains copyright | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | University cooperation -- Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Higher education -- Social aspects -- Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Universities and colleges -- Research -- Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Universities and colleges -- Developing countries | en_ZA |
| dc.title | A university without ruins : some reflections on possibilities and particularities of an African university | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |