Browsing by Author "Waghid, Yusef"

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    Chartered accountancy and resistance in South Africa
    (Stellenbosch University, 2021) Terblanche, Judith; Waghid, Yusef
    In recent times, the chartered accountant profession was regularly in the news for reasons pertaining to the unethical and unprofessional behaviour of members. The profession has an important role to play in the South African economy, as members will often fulfil important decisionmaking roles in business. In a response to the dilemmas the profession is facing, we analysed the implications for the profession and society due to a resistance to include research as a pedagogical activity in the chartered accountancy educational landscape. Through deliberative research activities, students have the opportunity to engage with community members and with societal challenges that could foster reflexivity and humaneness in students. In addition, critical and problem-solving skills are cultivated. These are skills that are difficult to assess in the form of an examination, and the absence of research as pedagogical activity in this particular educational landscape, impacts the cultivation of these skills in future chartered accountants.
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    A Foucauldian analysis of the ca profession in South Africa: Implications for society
    (Stellenbosch University, 2020) Terblanche, Judith; Waghid, Yusef
    Chartered accountants are often business leaders who frequently need to make decisions. Consequently, it is of importance for the fractured democratic South Africa that citizens (especially business leaders, such as chartered accountants) develop a socially just consciousness. In this article, we provide the results of an analysis of one of Michel Foucault’s genealogical works, and introduce some of Foucault’s views pertaining to knowledge and power. Foucault (1995) identified three disciplinary power mechanisms, namely hierarchical observation, normalising judgement, and the examination. Consequently, we used this particular Foucauldian lens to analyse the disciplinary power mechanisms evident in the CA educational landscape. Lastly, we identified the consequences for education (and therefore ultimately society) as a result of the particular power relations in the chartered accountant educational landscape and profession.
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    Objective teacher evaluation and democracy in a changing South Africa
    (University of the Western Cape, 1992) Waghid, Yusef; Bak, Nelleke; Faculty of Education
    In this minithesis I attempt to explain what could be meant by an objective and democratic teacher evaluation system. The central question which I address is whether the current South African teacher evaluation system could lay claim to the kind of objectivity and democracy I develop in my minithesis."
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    Philosophy of education in a new key: Cultivating a living philosophy of education to overcome coloniality and violence in African Universities
    (Taylor & Francis, 2020) Waghid, Yusef; Davids, Nuraan; Mathebula, Thokozani; Terblanche, Judith; Higgs, Philip; Shawa, Lester; Manthalu, Chikumbutso Herbert; Waghid, Zayd; Ngwenya, Celiwe; Divala, Joseph; Waghid, Faiq; Peters, Michael A.; Tesar, Marek
    In this conversational article, we consider cultivating decoloniality in university education by drawing upon Jacques Ranci ere�s (2010) notion of a living philosophy. Ranci ere�s (2010) living philosophy holds the possibility of both a medium and a space for a re-thinking and a re-contemplation of what life is in relation to what it might be. Through engaging and sharing real human experiences from and within African societies and universities, we (re)imagine decoloniality as a fiction brought to life through a living philosophy of education. In this regard, we proffer eight points of departure and reflection.