Thinking University Expanded

Taylor & Francis

The Thinking University ExpandedOn Profanation, Play and Education\nAuthor(s): Yusef Waghid, Nuraan Davids\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032083483, 978-1032083483\nSynopsis\nThe Thinking University Expanded considers how the university can be extended and developed to an institution of play that becomes a gateway to new compositions and enactments of opportunities and happiness for university academics and students alike. A university of and in continuous play can shape the public sphere in ways that reimagine both the epistemological and political, and the metaphysical and the ethical.\n\nWithout abandoning the universitys emphasis on thinking, the book examines the prospects of opening the university to a new, possible use. The singular outcomes-based lens of seeing higher education distorts the humane and ethical nuance of what a university can potentially do and aspire towards. For this reason, the book i.