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 engagementsautonomous action, deliberative iterations, and simple actiontoward emotive enactments that could enhance human relations in educational encounters.

Makes a case for forms of human action that enhance theories and practices of liberal notions of democratic citizenship education Puts forward the view that human encounters should invoke both rationality and emotions situated in explications of love Presents the idea of encounters situated in particular understandings of love

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Nuraan Davids is Professor of Philosophy of Education and the Chair of the Department of Education Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. Her research interests include philosophy of education; democratic citizenship education; and Islamic philosophy of education. She was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2020 -2021). She is a Co-Editor of the Routledge series, World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education; Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies; Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education, and an Editorial Board Member of Ethics and Education, and the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education journal. Her most recent books include Out of place: An autoethnography of postcolonial citizenship (African Minds, 2022); Democratic education as inclusion (Rowman & Littlefield - Lexington Series, 2022, with Y. Waghid); and Academic Activism in higher education: A living philosophy for social justice (Springer, 2021, with Y. Waghid).

Inhalt

Preface: Loving humanity is an extension of democratic citizenship education.- Chapter 1: Educational encounters, mutuality, trust and respect.- Chapter 2: Educational encounters as friendships.- Chapter 3: Educational encounters, autonomy and liberty.- Chapter 4: Educational encounters, deliberative iterations, and everyday talk.- Chapter 5: Educational encounters as loving relations.- Chapter 6: Educational encounters, and liquid love.- Chapter 7: Educational encounters, critical praxis and love.- Chapter 8: Educational encounters and the promise of a love that can heal hatred.- Chapter 9: Educational encounters and whatever singularity (the lovable).- Chapter 10: On thinking differently about educational encounters: on subjective (loving) encounters.