Values, Education, Emotional Learning, and the Quest for Justice in Education (The World Council of Comparative Education Societies, 59/21)

In this book, emotional teaching-learning is explored as it is cultivated based on teachers’ and learners’ attraction to reasonableness and emotions and can give rise to a plausible form of decoloniality or decolonisation in and through education. It is argued that when the latter manifests, the democratic transformation of education might ensue. Put differently, decoloniality and/or decolonisation of education is a substantive way to look at the democratisation and, by implication, transformation of education and schooling. Readers are invited to engage with the meanings espoused throughout this book in the quest to cultivate a genuinely decolonial form of education in universities and schools, where values education should be enacted reasonably and emotively in such educational institutions. Teachers and learners cannot remain silent when oppressive and hegemonic forces of modernity continue to guide educational practices in institutions.

Contributors are: Ahoud Alasfour, N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Emiliano Bosio, José Brás, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Camacho, Michael Cottrell, Lucimar Dantas, Amanda Fiore, Carla Galego, Maria Neves Gonçalves, Logan Govender, Beatriz Koppe, Sibonokuhle Ndlovu, Phefumula Nyoni, Adaobiagu Nnemdi Obiagu, Peter Oyewole, Theresa A. Papp, Martyn Reynolds, Kabini Sanga, V. Sucharita, Yusef Waghid and Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis.

Yusef Waghid is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Education at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is co-author of Towards an Ubuntu University: African Higher Education Reimagined (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2023), and editor of Chronicles on African Philosophy of Higher Education (Brill, 2023).

Ahoud Al-Asfour is Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational foundations and Administration at the College of Basic Education, Kuwait (PAAET). Her main research area is comparative education with a focus on Higher Education and policy reforms.